The Distribution, Abundance and
Conservation Status of Seagrass Meadows
along the Brazilian Coast
Joel C. Creed
Laboratório de Ecologia Marinha Bêntica, Departamento de Ecologia, Instituto de Biologia Roberto
Alcântara Gomes, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro – UERJ.
E-mail: [email protected]
Colaboration:
Margareth Copertino, Laboratório de Ecologia Vegetal Costeira, Universidade
Federal do Rio Grande
Paulo Horta, Departamento de Botânica, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
Karine Magalhães, Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco
Pablo Riul, Departamento de Engenharia e Meio Ambiente, Universidade Federal
da Paraíba
Krishna Barros – Universidade Federal do Ceará (UFC)
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Seagrasses conservation
Undervalued seagrasses
Species – Halodule wrightii -‘shoalgrass’
H. wrightii
H. emarginata
Creed, J.C., Marques, L.V., 2011. Magnoliofitas
marinhas com chave para gêneros. In: Pedrini, A.G.
(Ed.), Macroalgas (Chlorophyta) e gramas
(Magnoliophyta) marinhas do Brasil. Technical
Books, Rio de Janeiro, pp. 100-107
Species – Halophila decipiens – ‘paddlegrass’
Creed, J.C., Marques, L.V., 2011. Magnoliofitas marinhas com chave para gêneros. In: Pedrini, A.G. (Ed.),
Macroalgas (Chlorophyta) e gramas (Magnoliophyta) marinhas do Brasil. Technical Books, Rio de Janeiro,
pp. 100-107
Species – Ruppia maritima - ‘widgeongrass’
Creed, J.C., Marques, L.V., 2011. Magnoliofitas marinhas com chave para gêneros. In: Pedrini, A.G. (Ed.),
Macroalgas (Chlorophyta) e gramas (Magnoliophyta) marinhas do Brasil. Technical Books, Rio de Janeiro,
pp. 100-107
IUCN Red List Categories and Criteria
Halophila baillonii VU - vulnerable
Halodule emarginata – DD – data deficient
Short, F.T., Polidoro, B., Livingstone, S.R., Carpenter, K.E., Bandeira, S., Bujang, J.S., Calumpong, H.P.,
Carruthers, T.J.B., Coles, R.G., Dennison, W.C., Erftemeijer, P.L.A., Fortes, M.D., Freeman, A.S., Jagtap, T.G.,
Kamal, A.H.M., Kendrick, G.A., Judson Kenworthy, W., La Nafie, Y.A., Nasution, I.M., Orth, R.J., Prathep, A.,
Sanciangco, J.C., Tussenbroek, B.v., Vergara, S.G., Waycott, M., Zieman, J.C., 2011. Extinction risk
assessment of the world's seagrass species. Biological Conservation 144(7), 1961-1971.
Oliveira, E.C., Pirani, J.R., Giulietti, A.M., 1983. The Brazilian seagrasses. Aquatic Botany 16, 251-267.
Integrates several instititutions and research
groups along the Brazilian Coast
Sandy Beaches
Mangroves
Vegetated soft bottoms
Coral reefs
Estuaries
Salt Marshes
Rocky shores
Environmental Education
Aim: Discuss, standardize and apply methods in order to
produce long term data sets of seagrass dynamics in the
context of envirionmental change
Oliveira, E.C., Pirani, J.R., Giulietti, A.M., 1983. The Brazilian seagrasses. Aquatic
Botany 16, 251-267.
2012
1983
Copertino et al, 2012, dados não publicados
2008
Marques, L.V., Creed, J.C., 2008. Biologia e ecologia de fanerógamas
marinhas do Brasil. Oecologia Brasiliensis 12(2), 315-331.
Species distribution modelling (SDM)
Riul et al., unpublished
550 ppm stabilization
Seagrass distributional mapping in Brazil
Espírito Santo State
Mapped in 2013
70 points suggested
16 populations, of which 5 were previously known.
First record of H. decipiens and R. maritima for Espírito Santo
Seagrass monitoring in Brazil
Ilha do Japonês, Cabo Frio, RJ - 19 years monitoring
Halodule wrightii (SeagrassNet site since 2002)
Lagoa dos Patos, Rio Grande, RS – 34 years monitoring
Ruppia maritima. Site PELD-FURG) since 1999)
Abrolhos, BA e Tamandaré, PE SegrassNet sites since
2002
Global Seagrass Monitoring Program
Contact:
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