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- Title
A report card approach to describe temporal and spatial trends in parameters for coastal seagrass habitats.
- Authors
Carter, Alex B.; Coles, Rob; Jarvis, Jessie C.; Bryant, Catherine V.; Smith, Timothy M.; Rasheed, Michael A.
- Abstract
Report cards that are designed to monitor environmental trends have the potential to provide a powerful communication tool because they are easy to understand and accessible to the general public, scientists, managers and policy makers. Given this functionality, they are increasingly popular in marine ecosystem reporting. We describe a report card method for seagrass that incorporates spatial and temporal variability in three metrics—meadow area, species and biomass—developed using long-term (greater than 10 years) monitoring data. This framework summarises large amounts of spatially and temporally complex data to give a numeric score that provides reliable comparisons of seagrass condition in both persistent and naturally variable meadows. We provide an example of how this is applied to seagrass meadows in an industrial port in the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area of north-eastern Australia.
- Subjects
GREAT Barrier Reef; AUSTRALIA; REPORT cards; SEAGRASSES; WORLD Heritage Sites; HABITATS; POSIDONIA; ENVIRONMENTAL monitoring; MARINE ecology
- Publication
Scientific Reports, 2023, p1
- ISSN
2045-2322
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/s41598-023-29147-1