ReviewMicroorganisms2017
The Seagrass Holobiont and Its Microbiome.
Review in Microorganisms, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 53 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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53 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 148 citations in OpenAlex.
- Understanding trends inPeerJ · 2025Pooled it
- Location and habitat specificity structure benthic microbial assemblages in a temperate seagrass ecosystem.mSphere · 2026Article
- Response ofApplied and environmental microbiology · 2026Article
- Generalist phyllosphere taxa dominate microbial communities on macrophytes across a natural salinity gradient.Environmental microbiome · 2026Article
- Microbial Life Inside Posidonia Seeds: Beneficial Endophytes and Implications for Marine Plant Health.MicrobiologyOpen · 2026Article
- Spatial Patterns and Overlap of Sedimentary and Rhizosphere Microbiomes of the Seagrass Zostera capensis.Environmental microbiology reports · 2026Article
- Better together: Microbial diversity might facilitate the invasion success of the seagrassbioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Environmental gradients and habitat specificity structure benthic microbial assemblages in a temperate seagrass ecosystem.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- From holobionts to habitats: opportunities and limitations of microbiome-assisted restoration strategies of marine ecosystem engineers.FEMS microbiology reviews · 2026Review
- Host depletion kits improve microbiome analyses in environmental samples: seagrass as a test case.ISME communications · 2026Article
- Contrasting diversity and temporal patterns in leaf and root microbiome of two nearby temperate Zostera marina meadows.Environmental microbiome · 2025Article
- Global Review of Blue Carbon Ecosystem Microbial Communities.Environmental microbiology · 2025Review
- Compartment-specific microbial communities highlight the ecological roles of fungi in a subtropical seagrass ecosystem.Applied and environmental microbiology · 2025Article
- More Than a Stick in the Mud: Eelgrass Leaf and Root Bacterial Communities Are Distinct From Those on Physical Mimics.Environmental microbiology reports · 2025Article
- Functional Roles of the Seagrass (Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Exploring the structure and assembly of seagrass microbial communities in rhizosphere and phyllosphere.Applied and environmental microbiology · 2025Article
- Low impact of Zostera marina meadows on sediment and water microbiota under brackish conditions.Environmental microbiome · 2025Article
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- Seascape connectivity: evidence, knowledge gaps and implications for temperate coastal ecosystem restoration practice and policy.npj ocean sustainability · 2025Article
- Rhizosphere microbiomes are closely linked to seagrass species: a comparative study of three coastal seagrasses.Applied and environmental microbiology · 2024Article
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4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
Seagrass meadows are ecologically and economically important components of many coastal areas worldwide. Ecosystem services provided by seagrasses include reducing the number of microbial pathogens in the water, providing food, shelter and nurseries for many species, and decreasing the impact of waves on the shorelines. A global assessment reported that 29% of the known areal extent of seagrasses has disappeared since seagrass areas were initially recorded in 1879. Several factors such as direct and indirect human activity contribute to the demise of seagrasses. One of the main reasons for seagrass die-offs all over the world is increased sulfide concentrations in the sediment that result from the activity of sulfate-reducing prokaryotes, which perform the last step of the anaerobic food chain in marine sediments and reduce sulfate to H₂S. Recent seagrass die-offs, e.g., in the Florida and Biscayne Bays, were caused by an increase in pore-water sulfide concentrations in the sediment, which were the combined result of unfavorable environmental conditions and the activities of various groups of heterotrophic bacteria in the sulfate-rich water-column and sediment that are stimulated through increased nutrient concentrations. Under normal circumstances, seagrasses are able to withstand low levels of sulfide, probably partly due to microbial symbionts, which detoxify sulfide by oxidizing it to sulfur or sulfate. Novel studies are beginning to give greater insights into the interactions of microbes and seagrasses, not only in the sulfur cycle. Here, we review the literature on the basic ecology and biology of seagrasses and focus on studies describing their microbiome.
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