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    Seagrasses play a critical role in the maintenance of marine environmental quality. They contribute to coastal protection from sea waves, to the withholding of sediments and the recycling of nutritious substances (nutrient retention) they constitute important sources of carbon dioxide uptake from the atmosphere.

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    Chapter 3

    Molecular Approach of Seagrasses Response Related to


    Tolerance Acquisition to Abiotic Stress
    A. Exadactylos
    Additional information is available at the end of the chapter
    http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/59425

    1. Introduction
    The debate surrounding climate change and its adverse effects on marine ecology is one of the
    most highly charged issues throughout the scientific community (e.g. Costanza et al., 1997;
    ONeill, 1988). As far as seagrasses monitoring process is concerned, scientific data is needed
    that would contribute to the enhancement of marine environmental protection and their
    species conservation. Their use as biomarkers (Ferrat et al., 2003) is deemed as crucial due to
    the fact that they could be a reliable tool for researchers in the assessment of marine ecological
    status (transitional and coastal waters) in compliance with the Water Framework Directive
    (WFD, 2000/60/EC) and Marine Strategy (2008/56/EC) issued by the European Commission.
    Additionally, a challenge would be to deal with questions which arise from the underpinning
    tolerance mechanisms of seagrasses and whether they possess a sufficiently adjustable genetic
    background which in parallel can evolve in accordance with global warming.
    Seagrasses play a critical role in the maintenance of marine environmental quality, creating
    complex, mosaic type habitats with high ecological and economic significance (Wiens et al.,
    1993; Hughes et al., 2003; Torre-Castro and Rnnbck, 2004). The value of their contribution
    to the ecosystem is estimated at approximately 12,000 per hectare/year, a part of which,
    concerns the support of commercial fish supplies (nurseries) and in general the conservation
    of marine biodiversity. Moreover, they contribute to coastal protection from sea waves, to the
    withholding of sediments and the recycling of nutritious substances (nutrient retention)
    (Cabao et al., 2010), while they constitute important sources of carbon dioxide uptake from
    the atmosphere.
    Seagrasses are highly productive submersed marine angiosperms that grow in shallow coastal
    and estuarine waters, providing key habitants of important ecological and financial value
    (Heck et al., 2003; Bloomfield and Gillanders, 2005; Heck et al., 2008). However, substantial

    2015 The Author(s). Licensee InTech. This chapter is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons
    Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution,
    and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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