Seagrass Conservation

Global Status and Methods for Monitoring and Restoration

Xuan-Vy Nguyen, Jutta Papenbrock (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

350 Seiten

2025
Academic Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-443-27304-9 (ISBN)

Infos

Seagrass Conservation: Global Status and Methods for Monitoring and Restoration brings together regional perspectives on seagrass biology, monitoring, and conservation to highlight the ecological importance and vulnerability of this critical taxon. Seagrasses form large meadows on all continental shelves except Antarctica and provide vital ecosystem services including carbon uptake, nutrient cycling, and biogenic habitat for commercially important fish and invertebrates. This book acknowledges growing threats of global climate change, coastal water quality degradation, and ocean acidification before delving into the many recent advancements in non-invasive methods for monitoring and conservation. Written by globally recognized experts in seagrass biology and conservation, this book provides a much-needed update on the global status of seagrass species, monitoring methods, ecosystem services, and solutions to improve success rates of seagrass restoration. Thematically structured sections explore regional seagrass coverage, non-invasive methods to analyze spatial and temporal decline of meadows, function and resilience of seagrass ecosystems, and methods for successful meadow restoration. Seagrass Conservation recognizes the broad biogeography and global significance of these critical species and addresses rapidly emerging issues through the lens of regional experts in the field. This new work emphasizes the potential for seagrass recovery and offers a functional view of the current and future state of seagrass habitats in an indispensable reference book for academic researchers, industry scientists, conservationists, policymakers, and students alike.

Autor

Dr. Xuan-Vy Nguyen is Senior Researcher and Secretary of the Scientific Council at Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology’s Institute of Oceanography. Dr. Nguyen obtained his PhD in Marine Botany and brings more than 20 years of experience to this work. His research focuses on seagrass and algal biodiversity, distribution, conservation, and management. Dr. Jutta Papenbrock is Professor at Leibniz University Hannover’s Institute of Botany. In addition to her instructor role, Dr. Papenbrock also serves as Dean of Studies for the University’s Faculty of Natural Sciences, Chair of the Institute’s Study Commission Biology, and Managing Director of the Institute of Botany. She obtained her PhD in Plant Genetics from Leibniz University Hannover and received the German Botanical Society’s Strasburger Prize for her dissertation. Dr. Papenbrock brings more than 20 years of experience to this work. Her research focuses on seagrass and seaweed genetics, molecular biology, and stress resistance.

Inhalt

Section I: Status quo – Knowledge on seagrass coverage and its changes over time
1. Asia
2. Africa
3. North America
4. South America
5. Australia
6. Europe and Middle East
7. Threats and Challenges

Section II: Methods – Non-invasive methods for analyzing and characterizing seagrass meadows and their specific ecological functions
8. Mapping and monitoring of seagrass by remote sensing
9. Oxygen-free sediment
10. Epiphytes in seagrass productivity
11. Determination of genetic diversity and the relation to resilience in seagrass
12. Ecosystem services delivered by seagrass beds

Section III: Ecosystem services of seagrass meadows under global change
13. CO2 fixation and sequestration
14. Coastal protection
15. Current knowledge on biodiversity support, fisheries support, water purification, water sanitation
16. Global conservation status of seagrasses

Section IV: Solutions – Methods, success rates and improvement of seagrass restoration
17. Case studies: Including successful and unsuccessful approaches of seagrass restoration
18. Approaches to optimize seagrass seed germination and survival rate of seagrass seedlings
19. Plantation: Selection of genotypes and techniques
20. Determination of recovery rate
21. Seagrass restoration and management
22. Involvement of local and indigenous people including citizen science
23. Epilogue: Encouragement for action

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.9.2025
• Verlagsort: San Diego
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 191 x 235 mm
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Limnologie / Meeresbiologie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
• ISBN-10: 0-443-27304-9 / 0443273049
• ISBN-13: 978-0-443-27304-9 / 9780443273049
• Zustand: Neuware