Extinction risk assessment of the world’s seagrass species
By F. Short, B. Polidoro, S. Livingstone, K. Carpenter, S. Bandeira, J. Bujang, H. Calumpong, Tim Carruthers, R. Coles, W. Dennison and 16 more. 2011
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Seagrasses, a functional group of marine flowering plants rooted in the world’s coastal oceans, support marine food webs and provide essential habitat for many coastal species, playing a critical role in the equilibrium of coastal ecosystems and human livelihoods. For the first time, the probability of extinction is determined for the world’s seagrass species under the Categories and Criteria of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species. Several studies have indicated that seagrass habitat is declining worldwide. Our focus is to determine the risk of extinction for individual seagrass species, a 4-year process involving seagrass experts internationally, compilation of data on species’ status, populations, and distribution, and review of the biology and ecology of each of the world’s seagrass species. Ten seagrass species are at elevated risk of extinction (14% of all seagrass species), with three species qualifying as Endangered. Seagrass species loss and degradation of seagrass biodiversity will have serious repercussions for marine biodiversity and the human populations that depend upon the resources and ecosystem services that seagrasses provide.
Subfields: Ecology, Oceanography
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- Ghosts of the coast: global extinction risk and conservation of sawfishes (2016, background): “Globally, mangrove cover has been reduced by between 20 and 35% since 1980 and seagrass cover has been reduced by 29% since the late 1800s resulting in elevated extinction risk for these critical habitats (FAO, 2007; Waycott et al., 2009; Polidoro et al., 2010; Short et al., 2011).”
- Fishing groupers towards extinction: a global assessment of threats and extinction risks in a billion dollar fishery (2013, background): “Numerous taxa have been evaluated for extinction risk, and two recent reviews have highlighted these risks for groups that provide the foundation for marine ecosystems worldwide [e.g. corals (Carpenter et al. 2008) and seagrasses (Short et al. 2011)].”
- Extinction risk and bottlenecks in the conservation of charismatic marine species (2012, background): “Systematic Red List assessments (Carpenter et al. 2008; Polidoro et al. 2010; Collette et al. 2011; Short et al. 2011), indices of biodiversity loss (e.”
- Highlights in Seagrasses’ Phylogeny, Physiology, and Metabolism: What Makes Them Special? (2012, background): “Seagrass loss and degradation of seagrass biodiversity will have serious repercussions for marine biodiversity and the human population that depends upon the resources and ecosystem services that seagrasses provide [3].”
- Fish conservation in freshwater and marine realms: status, threats and management (2016, background): “, 2008), seagrasses (Short et al., 2011), and mangroves (Polidoro et al.”
- A comparison of threats, vulnerabilities and management approaches in global seagrass bioregions (2012, background): “The workshop participants were divided into groups based upon their regional knowledge of seagrasses in accordance with the six seagrass bioregions identified by Short et al (2007). Temperate North Atlantic, Tropical Atlantic, Mediterranean, Temperate North Pacific, Tropical Indo-Pacific and Tempera”
- Biogeomorphology of the Mediterranean Posidonia oceanica seagrass meadows (2017, background): “Seagrass meadows are among the most important elements for the functioning of marine coastal ecosystems, and represent a major focus for research and conservation (Koch et al., 2006; Short et al., 2011).”