World Seagrass Day | Grooming Youth—Blooming Seagrass, 1 March 2025
On World Seagrass Day, we celebrate the crucial role that seagrasses play in maintaining the health of our planet and highlight the urgent need for global action to protect them and the ecosystems they maintain. Seagrasses support food security, mitigate climate change, enrich biodiversity, purify water, protect coastlines, and control diseases. The enhancement of ecosystem services and functions are essential to the achievement of international Sustainable Development Goals. Raising awareness of the crucial role of seagrasses in ecosystem maintenance and facilitating their conservation is therefore of great importance.
In celebration of this day, we invite you to explore a selection of insightful articles, journals, and Special Issues in the fields of environment and ecology. These resources aim to deepen our understanding of the importance of seagrass ecosystems and outline the necessary steps to conserve, protect, and restore these vital habitats. By fostering dialogue between researchers, policymakers, local communities, and other stakeholders, we can ensure that efforts to protect seagrasses are effective and inclusive.
Together, we can safeguard the future of seagrasses and, in turn, our planet.
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“Restoration of Posidonia oceanica Meadow Using Cuttings from an Area Impacted by Harbor Extension Project”
by Mario De Luca, Luigi Piazzi, Ivan Guala, Maria Francesca Cinti, Paolo Marras, Arianna Pansini, Federico Pinna, Alessandra Puccini, Antonio Santonastaso, Myriam Stelletti et al.
J. Mar. Sci. Eng. 2025, 13(1), 3; https://doi.org/10.3390/jmse13010003
“Impacts of Marine Plastic Pollution on Seagrass Meadows and Ecosystem Services in Southeast Asia”
by Janine Douglas, Holly Niner and Samantha Garrard
J. Mar. Sci. Eng. 2024, 12(12), 2314; https://doi.org/10.3390/jmse12122314
“Seagrass-Associated Biodiversity Influences Organic Carbon in a Temperate Meadow”
by Lowri O’Neill, Bettina Walter and Richard K. F. Unsworth
Oceans 2024, 5(4), 874-888; https://doi.org/10.3390/oceans5040050
“Diversity and Composition of Posidonia oceanica-Associated Bacterial and Fungal Communities: Effect of Boat-Induced Mechanical Stress in the Villefranche-sur-Mer Bay (France)”
by Sara Frasca, Annamaria Alabiso, Marco M. D’Andrea, Raffaela Cattaneo and Luciana Migliore
Diversity 2024, 16(10), 604; https://doi.org/10.3390/d16100604
“Native and Non-Indigenous Biota Associated with the Cymodocea nodosa (Tracheophyta, Alismatales) Meadow in the Seas of Taranto (Southern Italy, Mediterranean Sea)”
by Giuseppe Denti, Fernando Rubino, Ester Cecere and Antonella Petrocelli
Diversity 2024, 16(7), 368; https://doi.org/10.3390/d16070368
“Spatial and Temporal Variation of C, N, and S Stable Isotopes and Seagrass Coverage Related to Eutrophication Stress in Zostera marina”
by Jerrica M. Waddell, Christina C. Pater, Michael R. S. Coffin, Robert F. Gilmour, Jr., Simon C. Courtenay and Michael R. van den Heuvel
Coasts 2024, 4(2), 419–436; https://doi.org/10.3390/coasts4020021
“Intertidal Gleaning Exclusion as a Trigger for Seagrass Species and Fauna Recovery and Passive Seagrass Rehabilitation”
by Tsiaranto Felan-Ratsimba Fanoro, Maria Perpétua Scarlet and Salomão Olinda Bandeira
Diversity 2023, 15(6), 772; https://doi.org/10.3390/d15060772
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“Dynamics of Marine Communities—Second Edition” |
“Social Sciences in Marine Ecology Conservation” |
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