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SEAGRASSES: BIOLOGY, ECOLOGYAND CONSERVATION pp 595–623Cite as

Seagrass Conservation Biology: An Interdisciplinary Science for Protection of the Seagrass Biome

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In the past three decades seagrass research has adopted several disciplines and matured into a global science. One of the approaches we can use to focus our science to benefit the management and protection of seagrass is that of Conservation Biology; a proactive field of science bringing together academic, government, and nongovernmental organizations from a wide range of disciplines to understand and conserve biodiversity. This relatively recent field synthesises and directs insights from many disciplines for direct application to the protection and conservation of species, communities, and biomes (Fig. 1). While the primary focus for conservation biology comes from ecology, genetics, landscape ecology, population biology and taxonomy, the discipline also incorporates analytical procedures associated with the social sciences, biogeography, and evolutionary biology (Soule and Wilcox, 1980; Soule, 1985; Meffe and Carroll, 1994; Primack, 2000). Conservation biology recognizes that humans derive both extractive and intrinsic benefit from the natural world and embraces methods and analyses utilized in fisheries science, agriculture, anthropology, economics, law, philosophy, and sociology. Today, unlike traditional approaches that were rooted in the preservation and management of selected species, conservation biologists are advising natural resource managers to focus more on an ecosystem approach that includes entire biomes, and to recognize that public trust demands comprehensive protection of biodiversity as much as sustaining the yield of harvestable organisms. Conservation biology endeavors to maintain and protect biodiversity at all spatial scales, including a variety of little understood and often overlooked life forms. In the broader meaning of biodiversity we are interested in conserving ecological services as much as life forms (sensu Randall, 1986).

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Kenworthy, W.J., Wyllie-Echeverria, S., Coles, R.G., Pergent, G., Pergent-Martini, C. (2007). Seagrass Conservation Biology: An Interdisciplinary Science for Protection of the Seagrass Biome. In: SEAGRASSES: BIOLOGY, ECOLOGYAND CONSERVATION. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-2983-7_25

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