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. The book covers the growing threats of global climate change, coastal water quality degradation, and ocean acidification before delving into recent advancements in non-invasive methods for monitoring and conservation. Written by globally recognized experts in seagrass biology and conservation, it provides a much-needed update on the global status of seagrass species, monitoring methods, ecosystem services, and solutions to improve success rates surrounding 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. 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.
Table of Contents
Section I: Status quo Knowledge on seagrass coverage and its changes over time1. 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
Authors
Xuan-Vy Nguyen Senior Researcher, Secretary of the Scientific Council, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, Vietnam. 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. Jutta Papenbrock Professor, Leibniz Universit�t Hannover, GermanyDean of Studies, University's Faculty of Natural Sciences, Chair of the Institute's Study Commission Biology, and Managing Director of the Institute of Botany, Leibniz Universit�t Hannover, Germany. 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.
