Seagrass ecosystems provide valuable ecosystem services and are susceptible to human pressures. Predicting and building resilience in these systems requires the understanding of the vulnerability to both current and future pressures. Through a combination of field and mesocosm experiments, the response of a number of temperate species across a range of life-history stages has been assessed. A number of climate change related pressures (heatwaves, salinisation from reduced rainfall, fresh-water pulses from flood events) were manipulated using single and multiple interacting factor designs. These studies have demonstrated negative impacts from all climate-change pressures tested, but some interesting synergies across multiple pressures, and opportunities for resilience building. Although warming has a negative impact on growth and productivity of H. ovalis seagrass, in combination with salinisation these impacts are reduced. Opportunities for resilience building were identified as some individuals of P. sinuosa seedlings show greater resistance to warming than others, and some populations of . H. ovalis show faster recovery following a fresh-water pulse event. Findings from these studies are being incorporated into models to predict the resilience of coastal seagrass populations to future climate-change scenarios.