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Measuring the role of seagrasses in regulating sediment surface elevation

Overview of attention for article published in Scientific Reports, September 2017
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Title
Measuring the role of seagrasses in regulating sediment surface elevation
Published in
Scientific Reports, September 2017
DOI 10.1038/s41598-017-12354-y
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Maria Potouroglou, James C. Bull, Ken W. Krauss, Hilary A. Kennedy, Marco Fusi, Daniele Daffonchio, Mwita M. Mangora, Michael N. Githaiga, Karen Diele, Mark Huxham

Abstract

Seagrass meadows provide numerous ecosystem services and their rapid global loss may reduce human welfare as well as ecological integrity. In common with the other 'blue carbon' habitats (mangroves and tidal marshes) seagrasses are thought to provide coastal defence and encourage sediment stabilisation and surface elevation. A sophisticated understanding of sediment elevation dynamics in mangroves and tidal marshes has been gained by monitoring a wide range of different sites, located in varying hydrogeomorphological conditions over long periods. In contrast, similar evidence for seagrasses is sparse; the present study is a contribution towards filling this gap. Surface elevation change pins were deployed in four locations, Scotland, Kenya, Tanzania and Saudi Arabia, in both seagrass and unvegetated control plots in the low intertidal and shallow subtidal zone. The presence of seagrass had a highly significant, positive impact on surface elevation at all sites. Combined data from the current work and the literature show an average difference of 31 mm per year in elevation rates between vegetated and unvegetated areas, which emphasizes the important contribution of seagrass in facilitating sediment surface elevation and reducing erosion. This paper presents the first multi-site study for sediment surface elevation in seagrasses in different settings and species.

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Country Count As %
Unknown 340 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 57 17%
Researcher 53 16%
Student > Master 51 15%
Student > Bachelor 36 11%
Student > Doctoral Student 20 6%
Other 41 12%
Unknown 82 24%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Environmental Science 103 30%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 64 19%
Earth and Planetary Sciences 27 8%
Engineering 22 6%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 10 3%
Other 20 6%
Unknown 94 28%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 64. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 31 March 2022.
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