Seaweed for climate mitigation, wastewater treatment, bioenergy, bioplastic, biochar, food, pharmaceuticals, and cosmetics: a review

M Farghali, IMA Mohamed, AI Osman… - Environmental Chemistry …, 2023 - Springer
The development and recycling of biomass production can partly solve issues of energy,
climate change, population growth, food and feed shortages, and environmental pollution …

Arctic kelp forests: Diversity, resilience and future

K Filbee-Dexter, T Wernberg, S Fredriksen… - Global and planetary …, 2019 - Elsevier
The Arctic is one of the most rapidly changing places on Earth and it is a sentinel region for
understanding the range and magnitude of planetary changes, and their impacts on …

Reviews and syntheses: Hidden forests, the role of vegetated coastal habitats in the ocean carbon budget

CM Duarte - Biogeosciences, 2017 - bg.copernicus.org
Vegetated coastal habitats, including seagrass and macroalgal beds, mangrove forests and
salt marshes, form highly productive ecosystems, but their contribution to the global carbon …

[HTML][HTML] Carbon dioxide removal via macroalgae open-ocean mariculture and sinking: an Earth system modeling study

J Wu, DP Keller, A Oschlies - Earth System Dynamics, 2023 - esd.copernicus.org
In this study, we investigate the maximum physical and biogeochemical potential of
macroalgae open-ocean mariculture and sinking (MOS) as an ocean-based carbon dioxide …

Macroalgal metabolism and lateral carbon flows can create significant carbon sinks

K Watanabe, G Yoshida, M Hori, Y Umezawa… - …, 2020 - bg.copernicus.org
Macroalgal beds have drawn attention as one of the vegetated coastal ecosystems that act
as atmospheric CO 2 sinks. Although macroalgal metabolism as well as inorganic and …

Golden carbon of Sargassum forests revealed as an opportunity for climate change mitigation

LP Gouvêa, J Assis, CFD Gurgel, EA Serrão… - Science of the Total …, 2020 - Elsevier
Marine climate change mitigation initiatives have recently attracted a great deal of interest in
the role of natural carbon sinks, particularly on coastal systems. Brown seaweeds of the …

[HTML][HTML] 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] Movement of pulsed resource subsidies from kelp forests to deep fjords

K Filbee-Dexter, T Wernberg, KM Norderhaug… - Oecologia, 2018 - Springer
Resource subsidies in the form of allochthonous primary production drive secondary
production in many ecosystems, often sustaining diversity and overall productivity. Despite …

Redefining blue carbon with adaptive valuation for global policy

J Sheehy, J Porter, M Bell, S Kerr - Science of the Total Environment, 2023 - Elsevier
Blue carbon has multiple definitions but is mostly defined, by criteria, as specific habitats or
species: seagrass, saltmarsh, and mangrove. These qualifying criteria include significant …

Organic carbon densities and accumulation rates in surface sediments of the North Sea and Skagerrak

M Diesing, T Thorsnes, LR Bjarnadóttir - Biogeosciences, 2021 - bg.copernicus.org
Continental shelf sediments are places of both rapid organic carbon turnover and
accumulation, while at the same time increasingly subjected to human-induced …