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Seagrass restoration enhances "blue carbon" sequestration in coastal waters by Greiner, Jill T, McGlathery, Karen J, Gunnell, John, McKee, Brent A

“…Seagrass meadows are highly productive habitats that provide important ecosystem services in the coastal zone, including carbon and nutrient sequestration…”
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Seagrass blue carbon spatial patterns at the meadow-scale by Oreska, Matthew P J, McGlathery, Karen J, Porter, John H

“…Most information on seagrass carbon burial derives from point measurements, which are sometimes scaled by meadow area to estimate carbon stocks; however,…”
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Genetic diversity enhances restoration success by augmenting ecosystem services by Reynolds, Laura K, McGlathery, Karen J, Waycott, Michelle

“…Disturbance and habitat destruction due to human activities is a pervasive problem in near-shore marine ecosystems, and restoration is often used to mitigate…”
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Marsh Collapse Does Not Require Sea Level Rise by FAGHERAZZI, SERGIO, MARIOTTI, GIUILIO, WIBERG, PATRICIA L., McGLATHERY, KAREN J.

“…Salt marshes are among the most productive ecosystems on Earth, providing nurseries for fish species and shelter and food for endangered birds. Salt marshes…”
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The greenhouse gas offset potential from seagrass restoration by Oreska, Matthew P. J., McGlathery, Karen J., Aoki, Lillian R., Berger, Amélie C., Berg, Peter, Mullins, Lindsay

“…Awarding CO 2 offset credits may incentivize seagrass restoration projects and help reverse greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from global seagrass loss. However,…”
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Seagrass ecosystems as a globally significant carbon stock by Fourqurean, James W., Duarte, Carlos M., Kennedy, Hilary, Marbà, Núria, Holmer, Marianne, Mateo, Miguel Angel, Apostolaki, Eugenia T., Kendrick, Gary A., Krause-Jensen, Dorte, McGlathery, Karen J., Serrano, Oscar

“…The protection of organic carbon stored in forests is considered as an important method for mitigating climate change. Like terrestrial ecosystems, coastal…”
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Rates and Forcing of Marsh Edge Erosion in a Shallow Coastal Bay by McLoughlin, Sean M, Wiberg, Patricia L, Safak, Ilgar, McGlathery, Karen J

“…Salt marshes can experience a significant land loss through erosion and retreat of their perimeter edges. Rates of shoreline change between 1957 and 2007 were…”
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Depth Affects Seagrass Restoration Success and Resilience to Marine Heat Wave Disturbance by Aoki, Lillian R., McGlathery, Karen J., Wiberg, Patricia L., Al-Haj, Alia

“…Accelerating losses of seagrass meadows motivate the restoration of these highly productive and beneficial ecosystems. Understanding how environmental…”
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Effects of seagrass restoration on coastal fish abundance and diversity by Hardison, Sean B., McGlathery, Karen J., Castorani, Max C. N.

“…Restoration is accelerating to reverse global declines of key habitats and recover lost ecosystem functions, particularly in coastal ecosystems. However, there…”
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Restoration recovers population structure and landscape genetic connectivity in a dispersal-limited ecosystem by Reynolds, Laura K., Waycott, Michelle, McGlathery, Karen J.

“…1. Ecological restoration assists the recovery of degraded ecosystems; however, restoration can have deleterious effects such as outbreeding depression when…”
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Nitrogen fixation associated with epiphytes on the seagrass Zostera marina in a temperate lagoon with moderate to high nitrogen loads by Marino, Roxanne, Hayn, Melanie, Howarth, Robert W., Giblin, Anne E., McGlathery, Karen J., Berg, Peter

“…As part of a long-term study on the effects of nitrogen (N) loading in a shallow temperate lagoon, we measured rates of N 2 fixation associated with seagrass (…”
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Restoration of seagrass habitat leads to rapid recovery of coastal ecosystem services by Orth, Robert J, Lefcheck, Jonathan S, McGlathery, Karen S, Aoki, Lillian, Luckenbach, Mark W, Moore, Kenneth A, Oreska, Matthew P J, Snyder, Richard, Wilcox, David J, Lusk, Bo

“…There have been increasing attempts to reverse habitat degradation through active restoration, but few large-scale successes are reported to guide these…”
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A meta-analysis of seaweed impacts on seagrasses: generalities and knowledge gaps by Thomsen, Mads S, Wernberg, Thomas, Engelen, Aschwin H, Tuya, Fernando, Vanderklift, Mat A, Holmer, Marianne, McGlathery, Karen J, Arenas, Francisco, Kotta, Jonne, Silliman, Brian R

“…Seagrasses are important habitat-formers and ecosystem engineers that are under threat from bloom-forming seaweeds. These seaweeds have been suggested to…”
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Ecosystem services returned through seagrass restoration by Reynolds, Laura K., Waycott, Michelle, McGlathery, Karen J., Orth, Robert J.

“…Ecosystem restoration is often costly, but can be effective at increasing biodiversity and ecosystem services. We used a case study—reseeding seagrass to a…”
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Restoration enhances denitrification and DNRA in subsurface sediments of Zostera marina seagrass meadows by Aoki, Lillian R., McGlathery, Karen J.

“…Seagrasses exude oxygen and labile carbon into the sediment, which can stimulate microbial activity. However, it is not clear how seagrasses impact competing…”
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The Science and Policy of the Verified Carbon Standard Methodology for Tidal Wetland and Seagrass Restoration by Needelman, Brian A., Emmer, Igino M., Emmett-Mattox, Stephen, Crooks, Stephen, Megonigal, J. Patrick, Myers, Doug, Oreska, Matthew P. J., McGlathery, Karen

“…The restoration of tidal wetland and seagrass systems has the potential for significant greenhouse gas benefits, but project-level accounting procedures have…”
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Eutrophication in shallow coastal bays and lagoons: the role of plants in the coastal filter by McGlathery, Karen J., Sundbäck, Kristina, Anderson, Iris C.

“…Nutrient loading to coastal bay ecosystems is of a similar magnitude as that to deeper, river-fed estuaries, yet our understanding of the eutrophication…”
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Ecosystem metabolism along a colonization gradient of eelgrass (Zostera marina) measured by eddy correlation by Rheuban, Jennie E., Berg, Peter, McGlathery, Karen J.

“…The Virginia coastal bays experienced local extinction of eelgrass (Zostera marina) during the early 1930s, and restoration beginning in 2001 has generated an…”
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Dissolved oxygen fluxes and ecosystem metabolism in an eelgrass (Zostera marina) meadow measured with the eddy correlation technique by Hume, Andrew C., Berg, Peter, McGlathery, Karen J.

“…Dissolved oxygen (DO) fluxes were measured by eddy correlation to estimate net ecosystem metabolism (NEM) during summer in a restored eelgrass (Zostera marina)…”
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Responses of Coastal Ecosystems to Climate Change: Insights from Long-Term Ecological Research by Reed, Daniel C, Schmitt, Russell J, Burd, Adrian B, Burkepile, Deron E, Kominoski, John S, McGlathery, Karen J, Miller, Robert J, Morris, James T, Zinnert, Julie C

“…abstract Coastal ecosystems play a disproportionately large role in society, and climate change is altering their ecological structure and function, as well as…”
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