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Meet the habitats

Three Mediterranean habitats, what keeps them healthy and what threatens them.

3 steps · 18 min

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1. Mapping and data
2. Scientific Insights · 3
3. Economics
4. Policy & Planning

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Scientific Insights

What is a healthy seagrass meadow? Indicators of condition

Shoot density, depth limit, leaf epiphytes: the measurements that tell a thriving meadow from a declining one.

Introductory 6 min read
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Scientific Insights

Maerl beds: living gravel and why it matters

Maerl looks like pink gravel but is a living habitat that grows a fraction of a millimetre a year.

Introductory 5 min read
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Scientific Insights

Coralligenous reefs: slow builders under pressure

Built by calcareous algae over centuries, coralligenous reefs host a large share of Mediterranean species. What threatens them.

Intermediate 7 min read

The slowest of the three to recover — and why that matters for planning.