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Global high-resolution mapping of seagrass to support conservation. <i>Nature (Lond.) 655(8123)</i>: 663-669. <a href=\"https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-10704-3\" target=\"_blank\">https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-10704-3</a>","BEntID":438602,"PublicFlag":1,"CheckedFlag":0,"wosflag":1,"vabbflag":1,"RefStringPartII":". <i>Nature (Lond.) 655(8123)</i>: 663-669. <a href=\"https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-10704-3\" target=\"_blank\">https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-10704-3</a>","DocTypID":8,"DocType":"Journal article","MarineFlag":0,"FreshFlag":0,"BrackishFlag":0,"TerrestrialFlag":0,"Authorstring":"Peng, J.; Li, J.; Krause, J.R.; Lyons, M.B.; Murray, N.J.; Schill, S.R.; Roelfsema, C.M.; Asner, G.P.","OrigTitleTranslFlag":0,"Authorstringtrunc":"Peng, J. <i>et al.</i>","Englishabstract":"Seagrass ecosystems underpin coastal biodiversity<a href=\"https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10704-3#ref-CR1\"><sup>1</sup></a> and provide vital ecosystem services, including shoreline protection<a href=\"https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10704-3#ref-CR2\"><sup>2</sup></a>, food security<a href=\"https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10704-3#ref-CR3\"><sup>3</sup></a> and climate mitigation<a href=\"https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10704-3#ref-CR4\"><sup>4</sup></a>. Despite growing recognition as a nature-based climate solution, seagrasses are among the least mapped and most poorly understood vegetated coastal ecosystems<a href=\"https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10704-3#ref-CR5\"><sup>5</sup></a>. Here we present, to our knowledge, the first global 10-m spatial resolution maps and change analysis of seagrass extent in clear, shallow coastal waters, derived from 4.75 million Sentinel-2 MSI satellite images for two periods (2019–2020 and 2023–2024). Using a deep-learning classifier trained on curated reference data, we identified 148,506 km<sup>2</sup> of seagrass globally, including 5,961 km<sup>2</sup> of intertidal and 142,545 km<sup>2</sup> of subtidal areas. Sixty-nine per cent of global seagrass extent is concentrated in The Bahamas, Cuba, the USA, Australia and Indonesia, yet only 21% of seagrass areas are located within marine-protected areas. Over the 4 years of the study, 5,969 km<sup>2</sup> (4%) of seagrass was lost, and an additional 6,221 km<sup>2</sup> (4.2%) was degraded from dense to sparse cover in tropical regions. 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