Problem
Threatened marine or estuarine habitats with rooted vascular beds
Other Names:
Endangered coastal saline habitats with rooted vegetation substrates Nature:
Pollution and human induced changes in the flow of fresh water to these areas are having a great effect on shallow marine or estuarine rooted vascular beds.
Background:
Rooted vascular beds include a large array of vascular species in the Marine and Estuarine Systems. They have been referred as temperate grass flats, tropical marine meadows, eelgrass beds, turtlegrass beds, and seagrass beds. Submerged vascular plants began a worldwide decline in the 1930s.
Broader Problems:
Threatened submerged aquatic bed habitats Narrower Problems:
Threatened salt meadowsThreatened tropical marine meadowsThreatened temperate sea-grass beds Values:
EndangeredThreat Subject(s):
Geography → WildGeology → Land and coastal forms
Medicine → Blood vessels
Oceanography → Marine
Plant Life → Plants
Societal Problems → Endangered species
Societal Problems → Vulnerability
Related UN Sustainable Development Goals:
Problem Type:
E: Emanations of other problems Date of last update
06.08.2019 – 18:31 CEST