By keeping marine herbivores in check, predators from sharks to crabs are essential to keep the oceanic 'carbon pump' working - with seaweed and plankton fixing atmospheric carbon and bearing it down to deep waters and sediments before getting munched. It's time to give ocean predators the protection they deserve, for climate's sake.
… of the ocean's carbon is stored, within seagrass, saltmarsh and mangrove ecosystems - … habitats to sequester carbon. For example, in seagrass meadows of Bermuda and Indonesia, …
The strongly protected marine reserve in Lamlash Bay, Arran, has been a huge success, write Bryce Stewart & Leigh Howarth, with abandant life returning to the once denuded waters. The government's refusal to expand such protections represents a huge wasted opportunity for both fishing and the marine environment.
… Certain habitats such as coral reefs and seagrass are highly sensitive to any kind of … Atlantic cod, for instance, rely on seagrass for shelter while they're still …