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 …

Interconnecting global threats: climate change, biodiversity loss, and infectious diseases

A Pfenning-Butterworth, LB Buckley… - The Lancet Planetary …, 2024 - thelancet.com
The concurrent pressures of rising global temperatures, rates and incidence of species
decline, and emergence of infectious diseases represent an unprecedented planetary crisis …

Seagrass beds acting as a trap of microplastics-emerging hotspot in the coastal region?

Y Huang, X **ao, C Xu, YD Perianen, J Hu… - Environmental …, 2020 - Elsevier
Microplastics is an emerging environmental problem in the world. However, presence and
fate of microplastics in seagrass meadows are barely known. In this study, the abundance …

Social equity and benefits as the nexus of a transformative Blue Economy: A sectoral review of implications

AM Cisneros-Montemayor, M Moreno-Báez, M Voyer… - Marine Policy, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract The term 'Blue Economy'is increasingly used in various marine sectors and
development frameworks. For it to be a truly useful approach, however, we argue that social …

Toward a coordinated global observing system for seagrasses and marine macroalgae

JE Duffy, L Benedetti-Cecchi, J Trinanes… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
In coastal waters around the world, the dominant primary producers are benthic
macrophytes, including seagrasses and macroalgae, that provide habitat structure and food …

A global assessment of mangrove soil organic carbon sources and implications for blue carbon credit

J Zhang, S Gan, P Yang, J Zhou, X Huang… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Mangroves can retain both autochthonous and allochthonous marine and/or terrestrial
organic carbon (OC) in sediments. Accurate quantification of these OC sources is essential …

[HTML][HTML] Historical analysis exposes catastrophic seagrass loss for the United Kingdom

AE Green, RKF Unsworth, MA Chadwick… - Frontiers in plant …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The spatial extent of seagrass is poorly mapped, and knowledge of historical loss is limited.
Here, we collated empirical and qualitative data using systematic review methods to provide …

Biotechnology for carbon capture and fixation: Critical review and future directions

MA Zahed, E Movahed, A Khodayari… - Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
To mitigate the growing threat of climate change and develop novel technologies that can
eliminate carbon dioxide, the most abundant greenhouse gas derived from the flue gas …

Stocks and losses of soil organic carbon from Chinese vegetated coastal habitats

C Fu, Y Li, L Zeng, H Zhang, C Tu, Q Zhou… - Global change …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Global vegetated coastal habitats (VCHs) represent a large sink for organic carbon (OC)
stored within their soils. The regional patterns and causes of spatial variation, however …

The greenhouse gas offset potential from seagrass restoration

MPJ Oreska, KJ McGlathery, LR Aoki, AC Berger… - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
Awarding CO2 offset credits may incentivize seagrass restoration projects and help reverse
greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from global seagrass loss. However, no study has …