Vascular plants are globally significant contributors to marine carbon fluxes and sinks

SM Cragg, DA Friess, LG Gillis… - Annual Review of …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
More than two-thirds of global biomass consists of vascular plants. A portion of the detritus
they generate is carried into the oceans from land and highly productive blue carbon …

The blue carbon of southern southwest Atlantic salt marshes and their biotic and abiotic drivers

P Martinetto, J Alberti, ME Becherucci… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Coastal vegetated ecosystems are acknowledged for their capacity to sequester organic
carbon (OC), known as blue C. Yet, blue C global accounting is incomplete, with major gaps …

Reimagining South American coasts: unveiling the hidden invasion history of an iconic ecological engineer

A Bortolus, JT Carlton, E Schwindt - Diversity and Distributions, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Aim The smooth cordgrass Spartina alterniflora is an iconic ecological engineer that
has inspired some of the more insightful concepts and perspectives in modern theoretical …

Crab bioturbation and herbivory may account for variability in carbon sequestration and stocks in south west atlantic salt marshes

P Martinetto, DI Montemayor, J Alberti… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2016 - frontiersin.org
Coastal vegetation plays an important role for climate change mitigation. Compared with
terrestrial ecosystems, coastal vegetation shows higher rates of atmospheric CO2 uptake …

Bioprospecting halotolerant lignocellulolytic enzymes from salt marsh ecosystems

DR Leadbeater - 2018 - etheses.whiterose.ac.uk
Lignocellulose is an abundant agricultural waste product presenting an attractive renewable
feedstock for ethanol production. Currently, lignocellulosic bioprocessing is economically …