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CHALLENGES FOR SEAGRASS CONSERVATION AND PROPOSED POLICY RESPONSES -…
CHALLENGES FOR SEAGRASS CONSERVATION AND PROPOSED POLICY RESPONSES
Up-to-date information on status & condition
Rationalize disparate available global data into a single resource
Improved top-down and bottom-up data
collection
Societal recognition of seagrass importance
Seagrass conservation needs to expand focus to encompass research and experience
Expand work with the global media
General public needs to experience seagrass for themselves
Balancing the needs of people and planet
Data required on the fishery activity in seagrass
Recognize seagrasses as part of connected social-ecological system at catchment and seascape scales
Expand understanding of interactions between the socio-economic and ecological elements of seagrass systems
Identifying threatening activities at local scales to target management actions accordingly
Harness local ecological knowledge to gather information in data poor areas
Conservation action in an era of Climate change
Use of indicators that provide an early warning of seagrass climate change impacts
Use future climate adjusted conservation targets that allow for cumulative impacts and ecological feedbacks
Incorporate projected future distribution into habitat protections
Develop innovate restoration techniques
Generating scientific research to support conservation actions
Encourage use of seagrass as a model ecological system or model species
Improved and increased communication of research to a broad audience
Use current high-profile seagrass research (food security and blue carbon) to engage wider research fields