In July 2008, at the invitation of the Center, Prof. Fred Short, Executive Chairman of SeagrassNet and former President of the World Seagrass Society, and his assistants visited the Center, gave the Center a set of standardized equipment and tools for global seagrass monitoring, explained the theory and methodology of seagrass monitoring, and cooperated with the Center to set up China's first and only global seagrass scientific monitoring station in the city of Beihai, Guangxi Province.     

As the only cooperative organization of SeagrassNet in China, the Center has carried out quarterly ecological monitoring of seagrass bed positioning in bamboo forests in Beihai, Guangxi since 2008. The monitoring indexes include seagrass coverage, density, biomass, reproduction status, anthropogenic disturbance status, chlorophyll fluorescence photosynthesis, soil seed bank, etc., which provide basic data for seagrass monitoring for the management and protection of marine ecology in Beibu Gulf of Guangxi. 

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