Researcher Name
Dr Johannes R. Krause
Description
Vegetated coastal ecosystems are recognized for the services they provide but are declining globally. As a result, actions to monitor, assess, and manage these systems have been enacted to ensure their continued benefit to nature and people. A variety of monitoring programs have been deployed at multiple levels of observation, from estimations of areal extent to in-situ observations of local condition (e.g., cover). However, it is rare that monitoring programs observe both scales simultaneously, and it is unclear to what extent observations from both levels can be compared, integrated, or even used interchangeably in regional and global syntheses of status and trends. Here, we analyzed data from five independent seagrass monitoring programs to test for correlation and causation between observations of areal extent and local condition. We found that, generally, trends in local condition w
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Organisation Name
Florida International University
Organization Type
Research Institute
Country
United States