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Environmental impacts of dredging on seagrasses: a review.
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In recent years, tighter control in the form of strict regulations, proper enforcement and monitoring, and mitigating measures together with proper impact assessment and development of new environmental dredging techniques help to prevent or minimize adverse impacts on seagrasses.About:
This article is published in Marine Pollution Bulletin.The article was published on 2006-12-01. It has received 489 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Dredging.read more
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Extinction risk assessment of the world’s seagrass species
Frederick T. Short,Beth Polidoro,Suzanne R. Livingstone,Kent E. Carpenter,Salomão Bandeira,Japar Sidik Bujang,Hilconida P. Calumpong,Tim J. B. Carruthers,Rob Coles,William C. Dennison,Paul L. A. Erftemeijer,Miguel D. Fortes,Aaren S. Freeman,T.G. Jagtap,Abu Hena Mustafa Kamal,Gary A. Kendrick,W. Judson Kenworthy,Yayu A. La Nafie,Ichwan M. Nasution,Robert J. Orth,Anchana Prathep,Jonnell C. Sanciangco,Brigitta I. van Tussenbroek,Sheila G. Vergara,Michelle Waycott,Joseph C. Zieman +25 more
TL;DR: For the first time, the probability of extinction is determined for the world’s seagrass species under the Categories and Criteria of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species.
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Environmental Impacts of Dredging and Other Sediment Disturbances on Corals: A Review
TL;DR: The results of this analysis reveal a significant relationship of coral sensitivity to turbidity and sedimentation with growth form, but not with calyx size, and meaningful criteria to limit the extent and turbidity of dredging plume effects will always require site-specific evaluations.
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Global patterns of kelp forest change over the past half-century
Kira A. Krumhansl,Daniel K. Okamoto,Andrew Rassweiler,Mark Novak,John J. Bolton,Kyle C. Cavanaugh,Sean D. Connell,Craig R. Johnson,Brenda Konar,Scott D. Ling,Fiorenza Micheli,Kjell Magnus Norderhaug,Alejandro Pérez-Matus,Isabel Sousa-Pinto,Daniel C. Reed,Anne K. Salomon,Nick T. Shears,Thomas Wernberg,Robert J. Anderson,Nevell S. Barrett,Alejandro H. Buschmann,Mark H. Carr,Jennifer E. Caselle,Sandrine Derrien-Courtel,Graham J. Edgar,Matthew S. Edwards,James A. Estes,Claire Goodwin,Michael C. Kenner,David J. Kushner,Frithjof E. Moy,Julia Nunn,Robert S. Steneck,Julio A. Vásquez,Jane C. Watson,Jon D. Witman,Jarrett E. K. Byrnes +36 more
TL;DR: Although global drivers could be affecting kelp forests at multiple scales, local stressors and regional variation in the effects of these drivers dominate kelp dynamics, in contrast to many other marine and terrestrial foundation species.
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Management of the marine environment: integrating ecosystem services and societal benefits with the DPSIR framework in a systems approach.
TL;DR: Taking a systems approach incorporating an understanding of The Ecosystem Approach, the DPSIR framework is integrated with ecosystem services and societal benefits, and the focus this gives allows to create a specific framework for supporting decision making in the marine environment.
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Medium- and Long-term Recovery of Estuarine and Coastal Ecosystems: Patterns, Rates and Restoration Effectiveness
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide a synthesis of the knowledge about recovery patterns, rates and restoration effectiveness of estuarine and coastal marine ecosystems from over a century of degradation, and they show that although in some cases recovery can take <5 years, especially for the short-lived and high-turnover biological components, full recovery of coastal marine and estuarial ecosystems can take a minimum of 15-25 years for attainment of the original biotic composition and diversity may lag far beyond that period.
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The value of the world's ecosystem services and natural capital
Robert Costanza,Rudolf de Groot,Stephen Farberk,Monica Grasso,Bruce Hannon,Karin E. Limburg,Shahid Naeem,José M. Paruelo,Robert Raskin,Paul Suttonkk,Marjan van den Belt +10 more
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Natural and human-induced disturbance of seagrasses
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The future of seagrass meadows
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Assessing Water Quality with Submersed Aquatic Vegetation
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Seagrass depth limits
TL;DR: In this article, an analysis of the depth limit of seagrass communities distributed worldwide showed that sea-grasses may extend from mean sea level down to a depth of 90 m.