Ecomeeting: A variational approach to optimising seagrass restoration efforts
Seagrass restoration methods typically provide only small quantities of plant material, and the time available for underwater work is limited. As a result, the amount of seagrass that can be planted in a restoration project is often strongly constrained.
With this in mind, we study how the initial spatial distribution of a fixed number of shoots affects the chances of survival and the initial growth rate of the incipient meadow, taking into account collective, nonlinear, and spatial effects.
Using a variational approach, we identify the spatial configuration that maximises the initial growth rate. We also show that this framework allows us to improve on the thresholds given by bifurcation analysis.
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