The marine prairies are paramount to the ecosystem playing a crucial role in various ways. Owing global atmospheric events inducing hydrospheric changes, seaweeds have been negatively affected and vulnerable. Conventional methods (SCUBA), which were previously used collect seagrasses, become destructive method for deriving unrecoverable damages their stocks replaced with remote sensing methods....

The seagrass Posidonia oceanica is a benthic foundation species endemic to the Mediterranean Sea. It key component of coastal seascapes across large marine ecosystem, where it plays fundamental ecological, physical, and economic roles. Despite importance this iconic species, quantitative assessment interplay between local dynamics basin-wide dispersal patterns still lacking. Here we propose Med...

We assessed the potential of dead seagrass Posidonia oceanica matte to act as a biogeochemical sink and provide coherent archive environmental change in degraded area Mediterranean Sea (Augusta Bay, Italy). Change sediment properties (dry bulk density, grain size), concentration elements (C org , C inorg N, Hg) stable isotope ratios (δ 13 C, δ 15 N) with depth were measured P. unvegetated (bare...

Seagrasses, marine flowering plants, are widely distributed along temperate and tropical coastlines of the world. Seagrasses have key ecological roles in coastal ecosystems and can form extensive meadows supporting high biodiversity. The global species diversity of seagrasses is low (b60 species), but species can have ranges that extend for thousands of kilometers of coastline. Seagrass bioregi...