Coastal protection, fish nurseries, carbon storage: how the benefits of healthy habitats are described and valued.
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Seagrass meadows trap sediment and store carbon, reefs break waves, maerl and seagrass beds shelter young fish. These benefits are called ecosystem services.
Some services have a market price, such as fish landed. Others are valued indirectly, for example by the cost of the coastal defence a reef replaces.
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