many shallow and sandy coastal waters around the globe – in the South China Sea, the USA, and the Wadden Sea, part of the North Sea. Though seagrass beds aren’t as well known as other coastal ecosystems like [...] of the seagrass in Schleswig-Holstein is an encouraging one. “When it comes to the Wadden Sea and the North Sea, for many years the focus has mostly been on their problems,” says Karsten Reise. But it also [...] Schleswig-Holstein Wadden Sea The seagrass is back For several decades, Schleswig-Holstein’s Wadden Sea produced very little seagrass, a plant that is especially important for juvenile fish and migratory