Geoengineering with seagrasses: Is credit due where credit is given?

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 11, Issue 11, 2016, Pages

  Johannessen, Sophia C ^a   Macdonald, Robie W ^a  

^a FISHERIES AND OCEANS CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

blue carbon; climate change; geoengineering; marine sediment; organic carbon

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEMS; PLANTS (BOTANY); SEDIMENTS; SUBMARINE GEOLOGY;

ATMOSPHERIC CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON INVENTORIES; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; DEPOSITIONAL PROCESS; FINE-GRAINED SEDIMENT; GEOENGINEERING; MARINE SEDIMENTS; RELIABLE ASSESSMENT;

ORGANIC CARBON;

CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; DELTAIC DEPOSIT; EMISSION INVENTORY; ENGINEERING GEOLOGY; FINE GRAINED SEDIMENT; IRON; MARINE SEDIMENT; ORGANIC CARBON; REMINERALIZATION; SEAGRASS;

EID: 85003935945     PISSN: 17489318     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/11/11/113001     Document Type: Article

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