High spatiotemporal variability of methane concentrations challenges estimates of emissions across vegetated coastal ecosystems

F Roth, X Sun, MC Geibel, J Prytherch… - Global change …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Coastal methane (CH4) emissions dominate the global ocean CH4 budget and can offset
the “blue carbon” storage capacity of vegetated coastal ecosystems. However, current …

Comparison of macroplastics dynamic across a tidal-dominated coastal habitat seascape including seagrasses, salt marshes, rocky bottoms and soft sediments

LG Egea, J Cavijoli-Bosch, I Casal-Porras… - Marine Pollution …, 2023 - Elsevier
Coastal environments are usually composed by heterogeneous coastal-seascape, which
can modify macroplastics accumulation dynamic. We evaluated seasonally the litter trapped …

Positive contribution of macrofaunal biodiversity to secondary production and seagrass carbon metabolism

IF Rodil, AM Lohrer, KM Attard, SF Thrush, A Norkko - Ecology, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Coastal vegetated habitats such as seagrasses are known to play a critical role in carbon
cycling and the potential to mitigate climate change, as blue carbon habitats have been …

Seagrass space occupation efficiency is key for their role as ecosystem engineers and ecological indicators

VM Vieira, R Santos, D Leitão-Silva… - … Earth & Environment, 2024 - nature.com
Studies for the preservation of seagrass beds biotopes have met difficulties in establishing
appropriate methods assessing their health. We tested the efficiency of space occupation by …

[HTML][HTML] A functional perspective on the factors underpinning biomass-bound carbon stocks in coastal macrophyte communities

R Lammerant, A Norkko, C Gustafsson - Marine Environmental Research, 2024 - Elsevier
Coastal ecosystems have received international interest for their possible role in climate
change mitigation, highlighting the importance of being able to assess and predict how …

[HTML][HTML] Structural complexity and benthic metabolism: resolving the links between carbon cycling and biodiversity in restored seagrass meadows

T Kindeberg, KM Attard, J Hüller, J Müller… - …, 2024 - bg.copernicus.org
Due to large losses of seagrass meadows worldwide, restoration is proposed as a key
strategy for increasing coastal resilience and recovery. The emergence of a seagrass …

Seasonality strongly affects short‐term C‐storage in coastal macrophyte communities

R Lammerant, EK Rohlfer, A Norkko… - Limnology and …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Ecosystem functions provided by aquatic plants are context dependent and mediated by
environmental conditions and plant growth form. This impedes our ability to predict the …

[HTML][HTML] Variability of soft-bottom macrobenthic invertebrates at different spatial scales: Comparisons between habitats and seasons

S Como, K Melouah, MA Draredja, B Draredja… - Marine Environmental …, 2024 - Elsevier
Studies focusing on patterns of spatial variation in marine soft-bottom assemblages suggest
that variability is mainly concentrated at small spatial scale (from tens of centimeters to few …

Development and deployment of a long‐term aquatic eddy covariance system

J Coogan, MH Long - Limnology and Oceanography: Methods, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The aquatic eddy covariance (AEC) technique is a versatile tool for understanding benthic
fluxes, and calculating primary production, respiration, and net ecosystem metabolism rates …

Positive contribution of macrofaunal biodiversity to secondary production and seagrass carbon metabolism

I Franco Rodil, AM Lohrer, KM Attard, SF Thrush… - 2022 - rodin.uca.es
Coastal vegetated habitats such as seagrasses are known to play a critical role in carbon
cycling and the potential to mitigate climate change, as blue carbon habitats have been …