Published in the journal Ocean and Coastal Management, the research set out to establish the value of local ecological ...

"Seagrass beds provide essential food sources for marine ... eelgrass seeds have a very low survival rate due to ocean currents and grazing. To increase seed survival, Zhang's team developed ...

Launching from Bradenton Beach, the Sarasota Bay Estuary Program and Southwest Florida Water Management District went on a science expedition to check on the health of seagrass beds in Sarasota Bay.

While covering only 0.1% of the ocean bed, seagrass ecosystems account for 10%–18% of the carbon buried in the oceans, according to a January 2020 study in the journal Frontiers in Marine Science.

Seagrass beds can in turn attract larger animals ... “Any scientist that works on the ocean will tell you there’s just so much of it that is still unknown,” Vinaccia said.

For research, ten fishermen working around islands in the Aegean Sea were asked to pinpoint areas where they believed seagrass beds could be found along the coastlines of their respective islands. The ...

March 1 was World Seagrass Day, but in the office of the geology department at the Center for Coastal Studies in Provincetown ...

Seagrass beds provide the perfect habitat ... To find out more about the work of the ocean and its role in reversing climate change, take a look at these guides. Find out more about some of ...

Each year seagrass absorbs as much as 10% of the ocean’s carbon dioxide ... team of scientists are determined to help the seagrass beds recover. They are working hard to collect over a million ...

We know the ocean holds powerful solutions both for mitigation and adaptation - from the carbon sequestered in ‘blue carbon’ habitats like mangroves, seagrass beds and kelp forests, to the protection ...