Mangroves and salt marshes are among the most productive ecosystems in the global
coastal ocean. Mangroves store more carbon (739 Mg CORG ha− 1) than salt marshes (334 …

Measurements of the production and consumption of organic material have been a focus of
aquatic science for more than 80 years. Over the last century, a variety of approaches have …

Estuaries are biogeochemical hot spots because they receive large inputs of nutrients and
organic carbon from land and oceans to support high rates of metabolism and primary …

Phytoplankton blooms are dynamic phenomena of great importance to the functioning of
estuarine and coastal ecosystems. We analysed a unique (large) collection of phytoplankton …

Estuaries profoundly transform the large amounts of carbon delivered from rivers before their
transfer to the adjacent coastal zone. As a consequence of the complex biogeochemical …

Annually integrated air-water CO 2 flux data in 44 coastal environments were compiled from
literature. Data were gathered in 8 major ecosystems (inner estuaries, outer estuaries, whole …

Nitrogen (N) is one of the primary nutrients required to build biomass and is therefore in high
demand in aquatic ecosystems. Estuaries, however, are frequently inundated with high …

The precipitation of carbonate minerals does not invariably result in CO 2 emission to the
atmosphere, because dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC) can be partially utilized by terrestrial …

Past characterizations of the land–ocean continuum were constructed either from a
continental perspective through an analysis of watershed river basin properties (COSCATs …

We compiled from literature annually integrated air–water fluxes of carbon dioxide (CO2)
computed from field measurements, in 20 coastal European environments that were …