Sentences with phrase «seagrass meadows in»

Seagrass meadows in Indonesia are mostly ignored in the conservation arena.

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Robert received a PhD in marine ecology from Boston University and has carried out research on salt marshes, seagrass meadows, and other coastal habitats.

Ocean seagrass meadows reduce bacteria unhealthful to humans and marine organisms by up to 50 %, a new study shows, and they also decrease the likelihood of disease in coral reefs by half.

Scientists regularly visit Carrie Bow Cay to study coral reefs, mangroves and seagrass meadows, as well as the animals that live in these unique ecosystems.

Lead author PhD student Adam Hejnowicz said: «Seagrass meadows could play a vital role in combating climate change as they are regarded as a net global sink for carbon.They have the capacity to bury significant deposits of organic carbon beneath the sediment, up to many metres thick in places and over millenary time scales.»

Seagrass meadows are able to store large amounts of carbon but historically they have been virtually ignored in global carbon budgets.

Seagrass meadows are found in shallow coastal waters around the world.

The research led by Dr Richard Unsworth indicates that up to 90 % of the seagrass meadows that they examined in Indonesia have been extensively damaged and degraded over the past five years.

So protecting meadows may mean worrying just as much about the partnership as the seagrasses themselves, says coauthor Tjisse van der Heide of Radboud University Nijmegen in the Netherlands.

After noticing a high number of bivalves tucked in the roots of one seagrass ecosystem, marine ecologist Tjisse van der Heide of the University of Groningen in the Netherlands surveyed the frequency of bivalves in 83 seagrass meadows around the world.

With seagrass meadows disappearing at an annual rate of about 1.5 per cent, 299 million tonnes of carbon are also released back into the environment each year, according to research published this week in Nature Geoscience (DOI: 10.1038 / ngeo1477).

Piecing together old and new data from 946 seagrass meadows around the world, an international team of researchers estimated that seagrass captures 27.4 million tonnes of carbon each year, burying it in the soil below.

A new study from across British Columbia shows that fish diversity in seagrass meadows is lower where there is more human disturbance.

Of the coastal blue carbon stored within mangroves, tidal marshes, and seagrass meadows, 50 — 99 % is located in the soils below ground.

Protocols for measuring blue carbon stored in mangroves have been established for some time and related methods for tidal marshes and seagrass meadows are now becoming standardized.

For example, over 95 % of the carbon in seagrass meadows is stored in the soils *.

The International Blue Carbon Initiative is proud to present «Coastal Blue Carbon: methods for assessing carbon stocks and emissions factors in mangroves, tidal salt marshes, and seagrass meadows».

Coastal Blue Carbon: Methods for assessing carbon stocks and emissions factors in mangroves, tidal salt marshes, and seagrass meadows.

The World Seagrass Association statement — being issued ahead of a major international conference on seagrass protection in North Wales — notes that seagrass meadows are being lost at a global rate of 2 % pSeagrass Association statement — being issued ahead of a major international conference on seagrass protection in North Wales — notes that seagrass meadows are being lost at a global rate of 2 % pseagrass protection in North Wales — notes that seagrass meadows are being lost at a global rate of 2 % pseagrass meadows are being lost at a global rate of 2 % per year.

What better way to «give back to the Gulf» — and to the people whose livelihood depend on a healthy Gulf — than to protect the deep reefs and string of «topographic highs» in the Northern Gulf, the spawning areas for tuna, the critical places for menhaden, grouper, snapper, shrimp and others, as well as the vital — but neglected — seagrass meadows of Florida's Big Bend area, from Panama City to Tampa Bay.

In some cases these seagrass meadows have been accumulating carbon for thousands of years.

Indonesia - As scientists are increasingly exploring the high carbon stocks contained in mangroves, tidal marshes and seagrass meadows — known as «blue carbon» — alarm bells sounding for these ecosystems» rapid destruction have never been louder.

The dialogue highlighted the often - overlooked role of blue carbon ecosystems, such as mangroves and seagrass meadows, in measures for climate change mitigation and adaptation.

New research in Nature Geoscience estimates that the world's seagrass meadows conservatively store 19.9 billion metric tons of carbon, even though the threatened marine ecosystems make up only 0.2 percent of Earth's surface.