Research progress of macrobenthos inhabiting seagrass beds
QIU Chongyu
ZENG Wenxuan
LUO Yufeng
ZHAO Muqiu
SHI Yunfeng
HAN Qiuying
Abstract：Seagrass beds perform important ecosystem services like climate regulation,water quality purification,carbon sequestration and benthic food web stablization.The complex interaction between seagrasses and macrobenthos is important to understand the ecological function of seagrass beds.Ac-cording to the related researches on the macrobenthos inhabiting seagrass beds,we summarized the re-search progress of macrobenthic community diversities,including the food source and shelter supplied by seagrasses for benthic fauna,and the spatial distribution of macrobenthos diversity in seagrass beds.The influence of macrobenthos on seagrasses was discussed.Firstly,macrobenthos densities had differ-ent effects on seagrasses.Secondly,macrobenthos may affected the photosynthesis of seagrasses.Fi-nally macrobenthos could lead to changing sulfide and nutrient concentrations in the sediment of seagra-ss beds.Agianst the background of global climate change and anthropogenic activities,the influence of temperature,salinity,ocean acidification,eutrophication and reclamation on the interaction between seagrasses and macrobenthos was clarified.Future researches should direct to the diversity of macrob-enthos in seagrass beds,macrobenthos utiulization in monitoring and evaluating seagrass ecosystems,effects of interactions between macrobenthos and seagrasses on seagrass beds restoration,and response of seagrass and macrobenthos interaction to global climate change and anthropogenic activities.
Keywords：seagrass bedmacrobenthosinteractionglobal climate changeanthropogenic activity
Publication Date：2025-12-30
Online Publishing Date：2026-05-22(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：10( 255-264 )