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Seagrass restoration trials in Kavaratti Lagoon, Lakshadweep: Growth patterns of transplants and their impact on overgrazing

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Relation http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/16531/
http://mbai.org.in/php/journaldload.php?id=2641&bkid=129
10.6024/jmbai.2022.64.2.2298-07
 
Title Seagrass restoration trials in Kavaratti
Lagoon, Lakshadweep: Growth patterns of transplants and their impact on overgrazing
 
Creator Kaladharan, P
Mohammed Koya, K
Anasu Koya, A
Sadique, K Jaffer
 
Subject Mangroves
Marine Botany
Seagrass
 
Description It is essential to restore degraded seagrass habitats as they are
among the major blue carbon ecosystems undergoing degradation
at alarming proportions throughout the globe. As our earlier
attempts at seagrass transplanting trials ended up in grazing by
herbivores, fresh trials in enclosed rafts were initiated which resulted
in an 80% survival rate. The results indicated the magnitude of
overgrazing on seagrass shoots and the height of transplants after
37 days in the enclosed rafts was 105 mm registering a net height
of 71.05±9.1mm, while in the exposed rafts the leaves of the
transplants were found grazed and the final mean height was only
13.3 mm registering a net height of shoots far below its initial
height. Any initiative to restore seagrass meadows in the degraded
areas must be taken up under protected mode or the existing
seagrass meadows should be allowed to recover on their own by
preventing overgrazing and checking man-made interferences.
 
Publisher Marine Biological Association of India
 
Date 2022
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format text
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/16531/1/Journal%20of%20Marine%20Biological%20Association%20of%20India_2022_P.%20Kaladharan.pdf
Kaladharan, P and Mohammed Koya, K and Anasu Koya, A and Sadique, K Jaffer (2022) Seagrass restoration trials in Kavaratti Lagoon, Lakshadweep: Growth patterns of transplants and their impact on overgrazing. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of India, 64 (2). pp. 63-66. ISSN 2321-7898