How can blue carbon burial in seagrass meadows increase long-term, net sequestration of carbon? A critical review

SC Johannessen - Environmental Research Letters, 2022‏ - iopscience.iop.org
Blue carbon sequestration in seagrass meadows has been proposed as a low-risk, nature-
based solution to offset carbon emissions and reduce the effects of climate change …

The cell wall of seagrasses: Fascinating, peculiar and a blank canvas for future research

L Pfeifer, B Classen - Frontiers in plant science, 2020‏ - frontiersin.org
Seegrasses are a polyphyletic group of angiosperm plants, which evolved from early
monocotyledonous land plants and returned to the marine environment around 140 million …

Seagrass meadow stability and composition influence carbon storage

AL Bijak, LK Reynolds, AR Smyth - Landscape Ecology, 2023‏ - Springer
Context Seagrass ecosystems are lauded for storing organic carbon in underlying
sediments, but storage is highly variable, even at relatively small spatial scales. While …

Capturing of organic carbon and nitrogen in eelgrass sediments of southern Scandinavia

C Leiva‐Dueñas, AEL Graversen… - Limnology and …, 2023‏ - Wiley Online Library
The ability of seagrass meadows to filter nutrients and capture and store CO2 and nutrients
in the form of organic carbon (OC) and nitrogen (N) in their sediments may help to mitigate …

Seagrass Abundance Predicts Surficial Soil Organic Carbon Stocks Across the Range of Thalassia testudinum in the Western North Atlantic

JW Fourqurean, JE Campbell, OK Rhoades… - Estuaries and …, 2023‏ - Springer
The organic carbon (Corg) stored in seagrass meadows is globally significant and could be
relevant in strategies to mitigate increasing CO2 concentration in the atmosphere. Most of …

Mechanistic strategies of microbial communities regulating lignocellulose deconstruction in a UK salt marsh

DR Leadbeater, NC Oates, JP Bennett, Y Li, AA Dowle… - Microbiome, 2021‏ - Springer
Background Salt marshes are major natural repositories of sequestered organic carbon with
high burial rates of organic matter, produced by highly productive native flora. Accumulated …

Stronger together: do coral reefs enhance seagrass meadows “blue carbon” potential?

LA Guerra-Vargas, LG Gillis… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2020‏ - frontiersin.org
Seagrass meadows are important for carbon storage, this carbon is known as “blue carbon”
and represents a vital ecosystem service. Recently there has been growing interest in …

Maximizing blue carbon stocks through saltmarsh restoration

L McMahon, CJT Ladd, A Burden, E Garrett… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2023‏ - frontiersin.org
Political discourse around coastal wetland restoration and blue carbon management
strategies has increased in the past decade, yet carbon storage has neither been a reason …

Assessment of coral reef connectivity in improved organic carbon storage of seagrass ecosystems in Palk Bay, India

RP Ranith, N Menon, EP Nobi, AA Raj, S Sivaraj - Marine Pollution Bulletin, 2024‏ - Elsevier
The increase in climate-related extreme events and ecosystem degradation demands
consistent and sustainable climate mitigation efforts. Seagrass playing a key role in nature …

Seagrass contributes substantially to the sedimentary lignin pool in an estuarine seagrass meadow

M Nakakuni, K Watanabe, K Kaminaka… - Science of the Total …, 2021‏ - Elsevier
Shallow coastal ecosystems are reservoirs of carbon derived from allochthonous organic
matter and autochthonous organic matter produced by microalgae and macrophytes …