Extinction risk assessment of the world’s seagrass species.

• Main Authors: Short, Frederick T., Polidoro, Beth, Livingstone, Suzanne R., Carpenter, Kent E., Bandeira, Salomao, Bujang, Japar Sidik, Calumpong, Hilconida P., Carruthers, Tim J.B., Coles, Robert G., Dennison, William C., Erftemeijer, Paul L.A., Fortes, Miguel D., Freeman, Aaren S., Jagtap, T.G., M. Kamal, Abu Hena, Kendrick, Gary A., Kenworthy, W. Judson, La Nafie, Yayu A., Nasution, Ichwan M., Orth, Robert J., Prathep, Anchana, Sanciangco, Jonnell C., Van Tussenbroek, Brigitta, Vergara, Sheila G., Waycott, Michelle, Zieman, Joseph C.
• Format: Article
• Language: English; English
• Published: Elsevier 2011
• Online Access: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/22177/1/Extinction%20risk%20assessment%20of%20the%20world.pdf; http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/22177/

Seagrasses, a functional group of marine flowering plants rooted in the world’s coastal oceans, support marine food webs and provide essential habitat for many coastal species, playing a critical role in the equilibrium of coastal ecosystems and human livelihoods. For the first time, the probability...