Seagrass restoration, USA (Thorhaug 1976)

OPP-02KJYVpermanent identifier · cite as oceanportfolio.org/p/OPP-02KJYV

Completed (successful/maintained)

Country: USA

Goal

Technique: aquaculture and transplanting (seagrass seeds, seedlings or rhizomes) Direct monetary costs of collection, nursing, and planting, seagrasses under the assumption of no mortality during the nursery stage, a natural planting mortality of 0.312, a desired seagrass cover of 3000 blades per m2 over an area of 10000 m2 to be achieved in 2.5 years. Number of seeds planted on 1 ha: 43,602. Spatial extent 10000 ha as reported. Reported project duration 2,5 year(s).

Team

Project's total contribution

No scored contributions yet

Recorded result

Meadow area

1 variable · 100 km² · 1976-01-01 to 1976-12-31 · recorded at Completed (successful/maintained)

pending

Self-reported

Meadow area · 1.1.2.1

pending

0 → 10000 ha · health —% → —%

Method: Spatial extent reported in the source: Thorhaug A, Austin CB (1976) Restoration of seagrasses with economic analysis. Environ Conserv 3:259-268.

A variable shows "pending" instead of a contribution when no domain area has been set for it yet — the share of the world a project touched cannot be computed without one. The health percentages are accurate regardless.