Habitat characteristics provide insights of carbon storage in seagrass meadows

I Mazarrasa, J Samper-Villarreal, O Serrano… - Marine pollution …, 2018 - Elsevier
Seagrass meadows provide multiple ecosystem services, yet they are among the most
threatened ecosystems on earth. Because of their role as carbon sinks, protection and …

A review of carbon monitoring in wet carbon systems using remote sensing

AD Campbell, T Fatoyinbo, SP Charles… - Environmental …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Carbon monitoring is critical for the reporting and verification of carbon stocks and change.
Remote sensing is a tool increasingly used to estimate the spatial heterogeneity, extent and …

Changing ocean, marine ecosystems, and dependent communities

NL Bindoff, WWL Cheung, JG Kairo, J Arístegui… - 2019 - ri.conicet.gov.ar
The ocean is a key component of the Earth system (Chapter 1) as it provides essential life
supporting services (Inniss et al. 2017). For example, it stores heat trapped in the …

The global carbon sink potential of terrestrial vegetation can be increased substantially by optimal land management

Z Sha, Y Bai, R Li, H Lan, X Zhang, J Li, X Liu… - … Earth & Environment, 2022 - nature.com
Excessive emissions of greenhouse gases—of which carbon dioxide is the most significant
component, are regarded as the primary reason for increased concentration of atmospheric …

[HTML][HTML] Seagrass ecosystem services–What's next?

LM Nordlund, EL Jackson, M Nakaoka… - Marine pollution …, 2018 - Elsevier
Seagrasses, marine flowering plants, provide a wide range of ecosystem services, defined
here as natural processes and components that directly or indirectly benefit human needs …

Assessing the risk of carbon dioxide emissions from blue carbon ecosystems

CE Lovelock, T Atwood, J Baldock… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
“Blue carbon” ecosystems, which include tidal marshes, mangrove forests, and seagrass
meadows, have large stocks of organic carbon (Corg) in their soils. These carbon stocks are …

Measuring the role of seagrasses in regulating sediment surface elevation

M Potouroglou, JC Bull, KW Krauss, HA Kennedy… - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
Seagrass meadows provide numerous ecosystem services and their rapid global loss may
reduce human welfare as well as ecological integrity. In common with the other 'blue …

Blue carbon storage in tropical seagrass meadows relates to carbonate stock dynamics, plant–sediment processes, and landscape context: insights from the western …

M Gullström, LD Lyimo, M Dahl, GS Samuelsson… - Ecosystems, 2018 - Springer
Globally, seagrass ecosystems are considered major blue carbon sinks and thus indirect
contributors to climate change mitigation. Quantitative estimates and multi-scale appraisals …

Contribution of Posidonia oceanica meadows in the context of climate change mitigation in the Mediterranean Sea

C Pergent-Martini, G Pergent, B Monnier… - Marine Environmental …, 2021 - Elsevier
Coastal marine vegetation has been recently highlighted for its highly efficient carbon
storage capacity. Among the sixty-four species of seagrass, Posidonia oceanica, a …

High variability of Blue Carbon storage in seagrass meadows at the estuary scale

AM Ricart, PH York, CV Bryant, MA Rasheed… - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
Seagrass meadows are considered important natural carbon sinks due to their capacity to
store organic carbon (Corg) in sediments. However, the spatial heterogeneity of carbon …