Tara A Pierce @restoringsustainability.com · 01/09/2025Thanks for sharing! Very interesting. Do you know if anyone is studying the impact of sea grass beds on MHWs or vice versa? I wonder if sea grasses, being a carbon sink, have any localized cooling effects? 100 0
ObsSea4Clim @obssea4clim.bsky.social · 02/09/2025Thanks @artist-at-law.bsky.social for the question! There’s good evidence that marine heatwaves (MHWs) damage seagrass, and only very limited evidence that seagrass meadows can locally buffer temperature. @bioecoocean.bsky.social maybe you have other inputs / new research on this topic? 🌿🪸🌊 110 0
Tara A Pierce @restoringsustainability.com · 05/09/2025I was afraid of that! Are there any papers looking at the impact of sea grass as a carbon sink, thus reducing MHWs more broadly in the Mediterranean? I imagine that might be hard to measure, I’m just super curious. 000 0
