The role of coastal plant communities for climate change mitigation and adaptation

By Carlos M. Duarte, Inigo J. Losada, I. Hendriks, I. Mazarrasa, N. Marbà. 2013

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Subfields: Ecology, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Oceanography

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Predators help protect carbon stocks in blue carbon ecosystems (2015, background): “Hypotheses to explain differences in C storage capacity among habitats include differences in: (1) rates of primary production; (2) C allocation to root biomass; (3) nutrient content of plant tissues, which influences decomposition rates of organic matter5,15,16; (4) effectiveness of the vegetation ”
Can macroalgae contribute to blue carbon? An Australian perspective (2015, background): “…and can be summarised as follows: macroalgae have exceptionally high biomass production; their global extent (2–6.8 million km2) and primary production (0.19–0.64 Pg C yr21) exceeds that of all the vegetated coastal habitats (seagrass beds, saltmarshes, mangroves) combined (Duarte et al. 2013).”
Climate-smart agriculture global research agenda: scientific basis for action (2014, background): “In general, evaluating adaptive planning with many types of metrics, including those for ecosystem services through restoration of coastal and intertidal vegetation, were found to provide more data to inform the final choices made by stakeholders [247].”
Connected macroalgal‐sediment systems: blue carbon and food webs in the deep coastal ocean (2019, background): “…to ignore that carbon leakage from macroalgae habitats is a fundamental transport pathway involved in the global blue carbon capacity of the ocean, supporting the growth of receiving sinks on the seabed (Duarte et al. 2013, Hill et al. 2015, KrauseJensen and Duarte 2016, Krause-Jensen et al. 2018).”
Scientists’ warning to humanity: microorganisms and climate change (2019, positive): “Human activity, including anthropogenic climate change, has reduced these habitats over the past 50 years by 25–50%, and the abundance of marine predators has dropped by up to 90% 85–87 .”
Technologies and perspectives for achieving carbon neutrality (2021, background): “It was estimated that seagrass ecosystems accumulate 176–411 Tg CO2-eq year (1).(203) The C stored in these coastal ecosystems as blue C can be preserved over millennia, together with the continuous accretion of soil and sediment organic C driven by sea-level rise, the C sequestration efficiency in ”
Expansion of vegetated coastal ecosystems in the future Arctic (2014, background): “…against future conditions in the Arctic, as well as data mining for formal and anecdotal records of macrophyte spread in the Arctic and the development of paleo-reconstructions based on archives present in sedimentary environments, such as those offered by seagrass meadows (Duarte et al., 2013b).”
The cost and feasibility of marine coastal restoration. (2015, background): “…and erosion, feeding and shelter from predation for commercial and non- commercial organisms, cultural services such as tourism or recreation (Liquete et al. 2013), and mitigation and adaptation to climate change (e.g., seagrass, saltmarshes, and mangroves; McLeod et al. 2011, Duarte et al. 2013).”