European seagrasses: an introduction to monitoring and management.
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2004Editor
Borum, J.
Duarte, C.M.
Krause-Jensen, D.
Greve, T.M.
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88pp.
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With this booklet, we aim to give environmental managers a basic
introduction to monitoring and management of European seagrasses.
Several countries already have established comprehensive and advanced
monitoring programmes for seagrasses, but in many European countries
programmes are virtually absent. We here, primarily, target the latter group
by compiling and presenting basic information on what seagrasses are, what
their importance is, the factors controlling their performance, the threats
against them and the temporal scales for seagrass recovery. Next, we
introduce the reader to basic monitoring strategies and parameters, and,
finally, we present recommendations as to how seagrass beds can be
protected and recovered through environmental management. If coastal
managers on this basis decide to initiate monitoring and management
programmes for seagrasses, they will need more detailed information than
provided by this booklet. Hence, we have listed links and references t.....
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http://www.seagrasses.orgPublisher
Monitoring and Managing of European Seagrasses ProjectDocument Language
enSustainable Development Goals (SDG)
14.2Essential Ocean Variables (EOV)
Seagrass cover and compositionMaturity Level
Pilot or DemonstratedSpatial Coverage
European watersEurope
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87-89143-21-3Citation
Borum, J., Duarte, C.M., Krause-Jensen, D. and Greve, T.M. (eds.) (2004) European seagrasses: an introduction to monitoring and management. Monitoring and Managing of European Seagrasses Project (M&MS), 88pp DOI: https://doi.org/10.25607/OBP-1997Collections
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