Seagrasses under Times of Change
Author: Gidon Winters
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
Published: 2022-05-24
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 2889761991
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Author: Gidon Winters
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
Published: 2022-05-24
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 2889761991
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Joseph C. Zieman
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Published: 1989
Total Pages: 170
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Frederick T. Short
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780520240476
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSeagrasses are a vital and widespread but often overlooked coastal marine habitat. This volume provides a global survey of their distribution and conservation status.
Author: C. Peter McRoy
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Published: 1977
Total Pages: 336
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Jens Borum
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Published: 2004
Total Pages: 196
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe goal of the report project is to define the habitat requirements of seagrasses in the European coasts, the present threats to the sustainability of the ecosystem they form, and their resilience to disturbance in order to strengthen our forecast capacity and formulate cost-effective monitoring plans and management strategies.
Author: Mats Björk
Publisher: IUCN
Published: 2008-03
Total Pages: 60
ISBN-13: 2831710898
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSeagrasses are flowering plants that thrive in shallow oceanic and estuarine waters around the world. Although there are only about 60 species of seagrasses worldwide, these plants play an important role in many shallow, near-shore, marine ecosystems. There is growing evidence that seagrasses are declining globally because of anthropogenic impacts. This paper presents an overview of seagrasses, the impacts of climate change, and other threats to seagrass habitats. Finally, it proposes tools and strategies for managers to help support seagrass resilience.
Author: Anthony Larkum
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2007-02-22
Total Pages: 724
ISBN-13: 9781402029424
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSeagrasses are unique plants; the only group of flowering plants to recolonise the sea. They occur on every continental margin, except Antarctica, and form ecosystems which have important roles in fisheries, fish nursery grounds, prawn fisheries, habitat diversity and sediment stabilisation. Over the last two decades there has been an explosion of research and information on all aspects of seagrass biology. However the compilation of all this work into one book has not been attempted previously. In this book experts in 26 areas of seagrass biology present their work in chapters which are state-of–the-art and designed to be useful to students and researchers alike. The book not only focuses on what has been discovered but what exciting areas are left to discover. The book is divided into sections on taxonomy, anatomy, reproduction, ecology, physiology, fisheries, management, conservation and landscape ecology. It is destined to become the chosen text on seagrasses for any marine biology course.
Author: Dan Laffoley
Publisher: IUCN
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 64
ISBN-13: 283171205X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Gerardo M.E. Perillo
Publisher: Elsevier
Published: 2009-01-18
Total Pages: 975
ISBN-13: 0080932134
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCoastal wetlands are under a great deal of pressure from the dual forces of rising sea level and the intervention of human populations both along the estuary and in the river catchment. Direct impacts include the destruction or degradation of wetlands from land reclamation and infrastructures. Indirect impacts derive from the discharge of pollutants, changes in river flows and sediment supplies, land clearing, and dam operations. As sea level rises, coastal wetlands in most areas of the world migrate landward to occupy former uplands. The competition of these lands from human development is intensifying, making the landward migration impossible in many cases. This book provides an understanding of the functioning of coastal ecosystems and the ecological services that they provide, and suggestions for their management. In this book a CD is included containing color figures of wetlands and estuaries in different parts of the world. Includes a CD containing color figures of wetlands and estuaries in different parts of the world.
Author: Monica Montefalcone
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
Published: 2023-08-22
Total Pages: 146
ISBN-13: 2832532314
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLandscape ecology has been a discrete, established discipline since at least 1980. Its marine counterpart, seascape ecology, is barely a decade old, its first applications dating from the early 2010s. Lack of perception of the marine environment hampers the adoption of many landscape ecology approaches to the sea. Seascape ecology relies on special technologies such as remote sensing (either acoustic or optical), robotics, and scuba diving. Both disciplines deal with the spatial configuration of ecosystems and consider environmental heterogeneity and dynamics as the main subjects of study and the key for ecosystem functioning and persistence. Seascape is here intended as the totality of natural and anthropogenic characters of a marine region. To the geologist, it is defined by sedimentology and underwater geomorphology, to the biologist by the nature of the living cover of the seafloor, to the ecologist by the relationships among functional processes and the spatial organization of ecosystems. The goal of this research topic is to encourage original research, case studies, reviews, and viewpoints to identify research priority gaps and possibly contribute to filling them in. We will appreciate, in particular, manuscripts dealing with recent advances such as high-resolution habitat mapping; underwater soundscape and biophony; development, application and validation of biotic indices to assess seafloor integrity (as requested, for instance, by recent European Directives). Papers of interest may discuss the multivarious facets of stability and describe resistance and resilience patterns, the role of stress and disturbance, regime shift and phase shift, or may take up the challenge of integrating coastal landscape and seascape analyses. Studies of long-term series are welcome, as well as methodological improvements, and macroecological approaches on the importance of species diversity and connectivity in seascape organization.