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ArticleScientific reports2023

A report card approach to describe temporal and spatial trends in parameters for coastal seagrass habitats.

Alex B Carter, Rob Coles, Jessie C Jarvis, Catherine V Bryant, Timothy M Smith, Michael A Rasheed

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Article in Scientific reports, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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6 authors.

Alex B CarterCentre for Tropical Water & Aquatic Ecosystem Research (TropWATER), James Cook University, Cairns, QLD, 4870, Australia. alexandra.carter@jcu.edu.au.ORCID 0000-0003-2303-0010
Rob ColesCentre for Tropical Water & Aquatic Ecosystem Research (TropWATER), James Cook University, Cairns, QLD, 4870, Australia.ORCID 0000-0002-3192-3778
Jessie C JarvisUniversity of North Carolina Wilmington, Wilmington, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-8467-0287
Catherine V BryantCentre for Tropical Water & Aquatic Ecosystem Research (TropWATER), James Cook University, Cairns, QLD, 4870, Australia.ORCID 0000-0003-4329-1111
Timothy M SmithCentre for Tropical Water & Aquatic Ecosystem Research (TropWATER), James Cook University, Cairns, QLD, 4870, Australia.ORCID 0000-0001-8612-8600
Michael A RasheedCentre for Tropical Water & Aquatic Ecosystem Research (TropWATER), James Cook University, Cairns, QLD, 4870, Australia.ORCID 0000-0002-8316-7644

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Report cards that are designed to monitor environmental trends have the potential to provide a powerful communication tool because they are easy to understand and accessible to the general public, scientists, managers and policy makers. Given this functionality, they are increasingly popular in marine ecosystem reporting. We describe a report card method for seagrass that incorporates spatial and temporal variability in three metrics-meadow area, species and biomass-developed using long-term (greater than 10 years) monitoring data. This framework summarises large amounts of spatially and temporally complex data to give a numeric score that provides reliable comparisons of seagrass condition in both persistent and naturally variable meadows. We provide an example of how this is applied to seagrass meadows in an industrial port in the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area of north-eastern Australia.

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