Location and associated carbon storage of erosional escarpments of seagrass Posidonia mats

Frontiers in Marine Science

Volumn 3, Issue MAR, 2016, Pages

  Serrano, Oscar ^a,b,c   Lavery, Paul S ^a,c   López Merino, Lourdes ^d   Ballesteros, Enric ^c   Mateo, Miguel A ^a,c  

^a EDITH COWAN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

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

^d BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biogeochemical cycles; Blue carbon; Ecosystem services; Indian Ocean; Mediterranean Sea; Posidonia australis; Posidonia oceanica

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008877237     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22967745     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmars.2016.00042     Document Type: Article

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