Halina Kendzierska, Ph.D. from the Department of Marine Ecology University of Gdańsk gave some insights on Zostera meadows and its recovery story at the Baltic Coast Dialog Workshop on September 19, 2024. Zostera plays a crucial role for blue restoration.
A few of the very much needed benefits of Zostera are nutrients and carbon storage, matter circulation, breed and nursery area, food availability, bioturbation and bioirigation and sediment stabilisation. This means, seagrass plays a crucial role in cleaning water by trapping sediments and absorbing nutrients, which causes cleaner water. It is also providing food and habitat for a variety of beneficial species in the Baltic Sea ecosystem. Seagrass is a requirement for thriving fish polulations.
Biodiversity is always much higher in Zostera meadows than on the sand next to it.
H. Kendzierska, PhD
As one of the participants of the Blue Restoration Workshop put it: “We can not do the large scale restoration. We need to give it into peoples hand who can.” This is your time to get involved.
In the following you will find Halina Kendzierska’s presentation.
More interesting key note speeches in the series of the Baltic Coast Dialog can be found here.
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