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 …

[HTML][HTML] Review of the physical and chemical properties of seagrass soils

N Piñeiro-Juncal, O Serrano, MÁ Mateo, E Diaz-Almela… - Geoderma, 2022 - Elsevier
Seagrasses are a polyphyletic group of angiosperms that colonized marine environments
more than 30 million years ago and currently inhabit coastal soft and rocky substrates in all …

[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 …

Reviews and syntheses: 210Pb-derived sediment and carbon accumulation rates in vegetated coastal ecosystems – setting the record straight

A Arias-Ortiz, P Masqué, J Garcia-Orellana… - …, 2018 - bg.copernicus.org
Vegetated coastal ecosystems, including tidal marshes, mangroves and seagrass meadows,
are being increasingly assessed in terms of their potential for carbon dioxide sequestration …

Mapping Mediterranean seagrasses with Sentinel-2 imagery

D Traganos, P Reinartz - Marine pollution bulletin, 2018 - Elsevier
Mediterranean seagrasses have been hailed for their numerous ecosystem services, yet
they are undergoing a decline in their coverage. The major complication with resolving this …

Sediment Properties as Important Predictors of Carbon Storage in Zostera marina Meadows: A Comparison of Four European Areas

M Dahl, D Deyanova, S Gütschow, ME Asplund… - PLoS …, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Seagrass ecosystems are important natural carbon sinks but their efficiency varies greatly
depending on species composition and environmental conditions. What causes this …

Detrital carbon production and export in high latitude kelp forests

MF Pedersen, K Filbee-Dexter, KM Norderhaug… - Oecologia, 2020 - Springer
The production and fate of seaweed detritus is a major unknown in the global C-budget.
Knowing the quantity of detritus produced, the form it takes (size) and its timing of delivery …

[HTML][HTML] Ranking the risk of CO2 emissions from seagrass soil carbon stocks under global change threats

M Dahl, K McMahon, PS Lavery, SH Hamilton… - Global Environmental …, 2023 - Elsevier
Seagrass meadows are natural carbon storage hotspots at risk from global change threats,
and their loss can result in the remineralization of soil carbon stocks and CO 2 emissions …

Thermo-priming increases heat-stress tolerance in seedlings of the Mediterranean seagrass P. oceanica

J Pazzaglia, F Badalamenti, J Bernardeau-Esteller… - Marine Pollution …, 2022 - Elsevier
Seawater warming and increased incidence of marine heatwaves (MHW) are threatening
the integrity of coastal marine habitats including seagrasses, which are particularly …

[HTML][HTML] Carbon metabolism and bioavailability of dissolved organic carbon (DOC) fluxes in seagrass communities are altered under the presence of the tropical …

R Jiménez-Ramos, F Tomàs, X Reynés… - Science of the Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
Seagrass beds act as blue carbon sinks globally as they enhance the trapping of recalcitrant
(ie, low biodegradability) organic carbon in their sediments. Recent studies also show that …