Researchers at the forefront of efforts to restore the UK’s coastal seagrass meadows say the remarkable plant’s contribution to the most important to-do list in the history of humankind should be reassessed. One of the researchers is PhD candidate Benjamin Jones at Department of Ecology, Environment and Plant Sciences (DEEP) that recently was co-author on a scientific paper adressing the issue.
Past migration and Pleistocene ice ages still impact size and structure of modern eelgrass communities, according to a new study published in PNAS. This could have implications for how well eelgrasses adapt to threats like climate change.
A new study shows that seagrass fisheries provide a reliable safety-net for poor fishermen, since they perceive those habitats to maintain large fish catches over time. Surprisingly, even more so than coral reef fisheries, which people normally associate with small-scale fishery.