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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

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

Showcase: how a knowledge page is built

A sample page that uses every block a researcher can add: text, image, gallery, video, highlights, quote, map, sources and downloads.

Introductory 5 min read

Ground-truthing: how divers and cameras validate a habitat map

A map is only as good as the observations behind it. Why every class needs eyes on the seabed.

Introductory 5 min read

How do we know a restoration worked?

Survival, growth and recovery of ecosystem functions: what to monitor, for how long, and against which reference.

Intermediate 7 min read

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

Monitoring budgets: planning the long tail of costs

Monitoring is often the first line cut and the one that decides whether a project can be judged at all.

Intermediate 5 min read

Seagrass meadow restoration in the Adriatic Sea

Restoration of Posidonia oceanica seagrass meadows via transplantation in the northern Adriatic. Keyword tag: ZOSTERA.

Indicators of seagrass meadow condition: a review (sample)

Which measurements tell a healthy meadow from a declining one, and how comparable they are across seas.

Protecting a maerl bed off Brittany (sample case study)

How trawling restrictions and monitoring were combined to protect a slow-growing maerl bed.