Blue carbon as a natural climate solution

PI Macreadie, MDP Costa, TB Atwood… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2021 - nature.com
Blue carbon ecosystems (BCEs), including mangrove forests, seagrass meadows and tidal
marshes, store carbon and provide co-benefits such as coastal protection and fisheries …

Achieving the Kunming–Montreal global biodiversity targets for blue carbon ecosystems

C Fu, A Steckbauer, H Mann, CM Duarte - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2024 - nature.com
Abstract The Kunming–Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (KM-GBF) provides a major
impetus for the restoration and conservation of blue carbon ecosystems to address the …

Long‐term declines and recovery of meadow area across the world's seagrass bioregions

JC Dunic, CJ Brown, RM Connolly… - Global Change …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
As human impacts increase in coastal regions, there is concern that critical habitats that
provide the foundation of entire ecosystems are in decline. Seagrass meadows face growing …

[PDF][PDF] Agriculture, forestry and other land uses (AFOLU)

GJ Nabuurs, R Mrabet, AA Hatab… - Climate Change 2022 …, 2023 - library.wur.nl
Executive Summary The Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use1 (AFOLU) sector
encompasses managed ecosystems and offers significant mitigation opportunities while …

Climate change challenges, plant science solutions

NA Eckardt, EA Ainsworth, RN Bahuguna… - The Plant …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Climate change is a defining challenge of the 21st century, and this decade is a critical time
for action to mitigate the worst effects on human populations and ecosystems. Plant science …

Anthropogenic pressures and life history predict trajectories of seagrass meadow extent at a global scale

MP Turschwell, RM Connolly… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Seagrass meadows are threatened by multiple pressures, jeopardizing the many benefits
they provide to humanity and biodiversity, including climate regulation and food provision …

The planetary role of seagrass conservation

RKF Unsworth, LC Cullen-Unsworth, BLH Jones… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Seagrasses are remarkable plants that have adapted to live in a marine environment. They
form extensive meadows found globally that bioengineer their local environments and …

The impact of ecological restoration on ecosystem services change modulated by drought and rising CO2

B Huang, F Lu, X Wang, X Wu, H Zheng… - Global Change …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Ecological restoration projects (ERPs) are an indispensable component of natural climate
solutions and have proven to be very important for reversing environmental degradation in …

Seagrass genomes reveal ancient polyploidy and adaptations to the marine environment

X Ma, S Vanneste, J Chang, L Ambrosino, K Barry… - Nature plants, 2024 - nature.com
We present chromosome-level genome assemblies from representative species of three
independently evolved seagrass lineages: Posidonia oceanica, Cymodocea nodosa …

Five priorities for a sustainable ocean economy

J Lubchenco, PM Haugan, ME Pangestu - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
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