Trends in Seagrass Research and Conservation in Malaysian Waters

The seagrass ecosystems found in the marine and coastal areas, with substantial eco-nomic ecological services span all over globe excluding Antarctic region. Coral Triangle Southeast Asia are recognized as a worldwide hotspot of species habitats, encompassing 10-21 every na-tion, although study, understanding, quantity publications on eco-systems rather limited region, including Malaysia. Malaysia contains 18 from three families, which occupy 16.8 km2of area, where study discovery meadows began 1904 re-port Beccari. All published papers reviewed reported Malaysian seagrass-related research, was divided into nine topic groups: biology distribution, carbon sequestration, fauna, remote sensing, impact pollution genetic res-toration, microbiological investigation, others. extensive ecosystem 1993, we have identified 183 Scopus, 141 Web Science, 42 Google Scholar. However, average trend number 1993 to 1999 0.71 ± 0.36, while 2000 2022 7.70 1.16 followed by yearly 6.78 1.08. highest faunal categories (43.17%), distribution (21.85%). num-ber articles that were each year has been discovered be rising, indicates trends publish-ing progressively garnering attention researchers, academics, gov-ernment. better understand sustainable ecology ser-vices provided an emphasis certain research niches, such flora fauna meadows, microbial ecology, res-toration well conservation might helpful.