ABSTRACT
Seagrasses provide unique biodiverse communities in shallow water, essential habitat for juvenile fishes, and provide shore protection against erosion by stabilizing offshore sediments (Brasier 1975). Seagrass clones can grow for thousands of years (Arnaud-Haond et al. 2012), but they are in serious decline worldwide (Short et al. 2011) and in the Mediterranean (Procaccini et al. 2003).
