Posidonia oceanica monitoring system on the coast of Aegean Sea of Turkey Barış Akçalı Dokuz Eylül University, Turkey Ergün Taşkın Manisa Celal Bayar University, Turkey Gökhan Kaman TÜBİTAK, Marmara Research Center, Turkey Alper Evcen TÜBİTAK, Marmara Research Center, Turkey Hayati Çalık TÜBİTAK, Marmara Research Center, Turkey This is a section of Eighth International Symposium “Monitoring of Mediterranean Coastal Areas. Problems and Measurement Techniques”(DOI: 10.36253/978-88-5518-147-1) by Donatella Carboni, Laura Bonora, Matteo De Vincenzi Firenze University Press Firenze 2020 https://doi.org/10.36253/978-88-5518-147-1.47

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Seagrass monitoring is a basic tool for measuring the condition of meadows in parallel to the environmental conditions. Posidonia oceanica meadows are very sensitive to anthropogenic effects. In the present study, two monitoring stations of Posidonia oceanica meadows were established on the Aegean coasts of Turkey in the years 2018 and 2019, at 26 m depth in Ildır Bay (İzmir, Turkey), and at 33 m depth in Kara Ada (İzmir, Turkey). The P. oceanica meadows upper and lower limits were defined by balisage systems. In the laboratory, lepidochronological, morphometric, and phenological parameters were also studied.

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