Seagrass meadows as a globally significant carbonate reservoir

Biogeosciences

Volumn 12, Issue 16, 2015, Pages 4993-5003

  Mazarrasa, I ^a   Marba N ^a   Lovelock, C E ^b   Serrano, O ^c,d   Lavery, P S ^d   Fourqurean, J W ^e   Kennedy, H ^f   Mateo, M A ^d,g   Krause Jensen, D ^h   Steven, A D L ⁱ   Duarte, C M ^a,j  

^a INSTITUTO MEDITERRÁNEO DE ESTUDIOS AVANZADOS   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^d EDITH COWAN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^e FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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

^h AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

ⁱ CSIRO   (Australia)

^j KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Saudi Arabia)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CARBON SINK; CARBONATE; COASTAL ZONE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; GEOACCUMULATION; MEADOW; PARTICULATE MATTER; RESERVOIR; SEAGRASS;

CYMODOCEA; HALODULE; INVERTEBRATA; THALASSIA;

EID: 84940213388     PISSN: 17264170     EISSN: 17264189     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/bg-12-4993-2015     Document Type: Article

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