Episode 8: Seeds, sods, and shoots: Restoring tropical seagrass meadows

Restoration offers a chance to boost natural recovery when seagrass meadows are damaged or lost – but effectively replanting seagrass is difficult to achieve.

From propagating seeds to burying sods to dropping anchored shoots, each approach has benefits and limits that can only be identified through field trials.

Hear from Prof Michael Rasheed, Dr Tim Smith, and Dr Paul York from TropWATER’s Tropical Seagrass Restoration lab about the many ways they are working to restore seagrass, challenges for restoration in tropical waters, and lessons learned from Australia’s first meadow-scale tropical seagrass restoration project.