Community-based monitoring detects catastrophic earthquake and tsunami impacts on seagrass beds in the Solomon Islands
2020
Moseby, K.E. | Daniels, A. | Duri, V. | Tropa, W. | Welma, S. | Bero, A. | Soapi, Katy M.
Seagrass beds are an important component of the marine ecosystem and play a significant role in coastal protection and maintaining fish production. Despite a global decline in seagrass, the Indo-Pacific region supports a high diversity of seagrass species with many seagrass beds still intact and healthy. Tetepare Island in the Solomon Islands is the largest uninhabited island in the South Pacific and supports seagrass beds inside fringing reefs along its southern coastline. We monitored the diversity and abundance of seagrass species on Tetepare and nearby sparsely-populated Rendova Island over a 12â�
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