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Habitat characteristics provide insights of carbon storage in seagrass meadows
- Source :
- Digital.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC, instname
- Publication Year :
- 2017
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Abstract
- Este artículo contiene 12 páginas, 1 tabla, 2 figuras.<br />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 restoration of seagrass meadows contribute to climate change mitigation. Blue Carbon strategies aim to enhance CO2 sequestration and avoid greenhouse gasses emissions through the management of coastal vegetated ecosystems, including seagrass meadows. The implementation of Blue Carbon strategies requires a good understanding of the habitat characteristics that influence Corg sequestration. Here, we review the existing knowledge on Blue Carbon research in seagrass meadows to identify the key habitat characteristics that influence Corg sequestration in seagrass meadows, those factors that threaten this function and those with unclear effects. We demonstrate that not all seagrass habitats have the same potential, identify research priorities and describe the implications of the results found for the implementation and development of efficient Blue Carbon strategies based on seagrass meadows.<br />IM was supported by a grant from Beca Iberoamericana Santander Investigación. OS was supported by an ARC DECRA (DE170101524). JS and JC thank the Vicerrectoría de Investigación, Universidad de Costa Rica (project No. 808-B6-170).
- Subjects :
- 0106 biological sciences
Aquatic Organisms
Carbon Sequestration
Geologic Sediments
Food Chain
010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences
Climate Change
Aquatic Science
Carbon sequestration
Oceanography
01 natural sciences
Ecosystem services
Blue carbon
Ecosystem
Seawater
Plant Physiological Phenomena
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
biology
Ecology
010604 marine biology & hydrobiology
Research
Carbon sink
Biodiversity
biology.organism_classification
Pollution
Carbon
Climate change mitigation
Seagrass
Habitat
Environmental science
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Details
- ISSN :
- 18793363 and 17010152
- Volume :
- 134
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Marine pollution bulletin
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....abc5c2a881a83506d68b0aa295be56f8