Southeast Asian Seagrass Network

Research Groups

Team Sea Habitats is based at the Physical Geography Laboratory, University of Malaya. We work on seagrass and coral reef ecology, in particular on highlighting the distribution and abundance of these key ecosystems in Malaysia, and in understanding how they function as habitats for fish, invertebrates and large herbivores.

Our current seagrass-related projects include:

1. Monitoring subtidal seagrass meadows in the southern South China Sea over the long-term, with an emphasis on building climatically-relevant datasets;

2. Studying the influence of seagrass habitat structure on fish assemblages;

3. Mapping out dugong feeding grounds in subtidal seagrass meadows to understand dugong feeding patterns;

4. Determining how intertidal seagrass meadows influence sedimentation and carbon storage;

5. Determining connectivity between meadows in the South China Sea.

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