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Articlenpj ocean sustainability2025

Management approach matters: meeting seagrass recovery and carbon mitigation goals.

Melissa Ward, Connor Dibble, Maddie Millington-Drake, John Lynch, Karen McGlathery, Richard J Lilley, Aaron L Strong, Lisa M Wedding

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Article in npj ocean sustainability, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Melissa WardUniversity of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
Connor DibbleScoot Science, San Diego, CA USA.
Maddie Millington-DrakeBlue Marine Foundation, London, UK.
John LynchNature-based Solutions Initiative, Oxford, UK.
Karen McGlatheryUniversity of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA USA.
Richard J LilleyUniversity of Groningen, Gronigngen, The Netherlands.
Aaron L StrongHamilton College, Clinton, NY USA.
Lisa M WeddingUniversity of Oxford, Oxford, UK.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Seagrass habitats support biodiversity, improve water quality, protect coastlines, and sequester carbon, among other essential ecosystem functions, yet they are declining worldwide due to human activity. Seagrass restoration and conservation can act as nature-based solutions for climate change, garnering growing interest from a diversity of stakeholders globally. Despite this interest, no seagrass projects have yet received carbon credits under international voluntary carbon standards. There is a clear need to better understand potential carbon mitigation outcomes of seagrass conservation and restoration practices. Here, we developed a mechanistic model based on a temperate meadow of

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Carbon cycleMarine biologyRestoration ecology

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PMID40331062
PMCPMC12049269

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