Literature survey of seagrass disturbance-recovery studies up to May 2022

To provide context for the seagrass recovery experiment (SRE) a literature synthesis was conducted on prior studies of seagrass disturbance and recovery. The synthesis provided evidence that 1) less than half (47%) of all seagrass species have been included, 2) were primarily on monospecific meadows of Zostera, 3) where experimental, mostly done on small spatial scales (median = 0.25 m2), and 4) that there is a positive, non-linear relationship between recovery time and disturbance area. Most meadows had some, if not full recovery during the study period suggesting that seagrass meadows are stable across a broad set of conditions.