Variability in the Carbon Storage of Seagrass Habitats and Its Implications for Global Estimates of Blue Carbon Ecosystem Service

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2013, Pages

  Lavery, Paul S ^a   Mateo, Miguel Ángel ^b   Serrano, Oscar ^a,c   Rozaimi, Mohammad ^a,d  

^a EDITH COWAN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b CENTRE D ESTUDIS AVANÇATS DE BLANES CEAB CSIC   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITI KEBANGSAAN MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ORGANIC CARBON;

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CARBON STORAGE; HABITAT; INTERTIDAL ZONE; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; NONHUMAN; POSIDONIA OCEANICA; SEAGRASS; SEDIMENT;

ALISMATIDAE; AUSTRALIA; CARBON; CLIMATE; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; ESTUARIES; GEOGRAPHY; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

EID: 84883506361     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0073748     Document Type: Article

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