Mapping and assessing seagrass meadows changes and blue carbon under past, current, and future scenarios

Seagrasses store large amounts of blue carbon and mitigate climate change, but they have suffered strong regressions worldwide in recent decades. Blue carbon assessments may support their conservation. However, existing blue carbon maps are still scarce and focused on certain seagrass species, such...

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Veröffentlicht in:The Science of the total environment 2023-05, Vol.872, p.162244-162244, Article 162244
Hauptverfasser: Montero-Hidalgo, Miriam, Tuya, Fernando, Otero-Ferrer, Francisco, Haroun, Ricardo, Santos-Martín, Fernando
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Zusammenfassung:Seagrasses store large amounts of blue carbon and mitigate climate change, but they have suffered strong regressions worldwide in recent decades. Blue carbon assessments may support their conservation. However, existing blue carbon maps are still scarce and focused on certain seagrass species, such as the iconic genus Posidonia, and intertidal and very shallow seagrasses (
ISSN:0048-9697
1879-1026
DOI:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.162244