Monthly Archives: January 2012

Seaweed Impacts on Seagrasses

Seagrasses provide numerous environmental goods and services through coastal areas of the globe. However, a large number of man-induced impacts threats nowadays seagrass health, e.g. through alterations to coastal habitats, invasion by non-native species, enhanced sedimentation, pollution, eutrophication, etc. Some … Continue reading

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Cymodocea nodosa seagrass meadows: dissemination of their importance

My colleagues from Oceanografica (www.oceanografica.com) have edited a poster that aim at disseminating the significant functions this habitat play in the coast of the Canaries. Check it out¡

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Fishes on Cymodocea nodosa seagrass meadows

Seagrasses are paramount habitats for onshore fishes, particularly during their early life stages. We have just published a paper that describes patterns in spatial variability (richness, abundance and diversity) of fish assemblages at 3 islands of the Canaries, through bottom … Continue reading

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