The persistence of carbonate structures on coral reefs is essential in providing habitats for a
large number of species and maintaining the extraordinary biodiversity associated with …

Climate change refugia in the terrestrial biosphere are areas where species are protected
from global environmental change and arise from natural heterogeneity in landscapes and …

Mangroves and saltmarshes are biogeochemical hotspots storing carbon in sediments and
in the ocean following lateral carbon export (outwelling). Coastal seawater pH is modified by …

Abstract The term 'Blue Carbon'was coined about a decade ago to highlight the important
carbon sequestration capacity of coastal vegetated ecosystems. The term has paved the …

Blue carbon ecosystems provide a wide range of ecosystem services, are critical for
maintaining marine biodiversity and may potentially serve as sites of economically viable …

Carbon cycling in the coastal zone affects global carbon budgets and is critical for
understanding the urgent issues of hypoxia, acidification, and tidal wetland loss. However …

Carbonate mud represents one of the most important geochemical archives for
reconstructing ancient climatic, environmental, and evolutionary change from the rock …

Seagrass conservation is critical for mitigating climate change due to the large stocks of
carbon they sequester in the seafloor. However, effective conservation and its potential to …

Carbonate minerals constitute Earth's largest C reservoir. This reservoir is considered
unimportant to the global C cycle over long periods of time (eg,> 10 6 yrs) because it …

Ecosystems today are under growing pressure, with human domination at many scales. It is
difficult, however, to gauge what has changed or been lost–and why–in the absence of data …