Sediment microbes mediate the impact of nutrient loading on blue carbon sequestration by mixed seagrass meadows

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 599-600, Issue , 2017, Pages 1479-1484

  Liu, Songlin ^a,b,c   Jiang, Zhijian ^a   Zhang, Jingping ^a   Wu, Yunchao ^a,b   Huang, Xiaoping ^a,b   Macreadie, Peter I ^c  

^a SOUTH CHINA SEA INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Carbon sequestration; Enhalus acoroides; Microbes; Thalassia hemprichii

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; ENZYME ACTIVITY; NUTRIENTS; ORGANIC CARBON; SEDIMENTS;

CARBON SEQUESTRATION; ENHALUS ACOROIDES; EXTRACELLULAR ENZYME ACTIVITY; MICROBES; MICROBIAL ACTIVITIES; RELATIVE CONTRIBUTION; SEDIMENT ORGANIC CARBON; THALASSIA HEMPRICHII;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

BETA FRUCTOFURANOSIDASE; CATECHOL OXIDASE; CELLULASE; ORGANIC CARBON; PEROXIDASE; CARBON;

CARBON SEQUESTRATION; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; NUTRIENT; ORGANIC CARBON; SEAGRASS MEADOW; SEDIMENT;

ARTICLE; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CARBON STORAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENHALUS ACOROIDES; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EPIPHYTE; MACROALGA; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MICROBIAL BIOMASS; MICROORGANISM; MIXED SEAGRASS MEADOW; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT LOADING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEAGRASS; SEDIMENT; THALASSIA HEMPRICHII; TOTAL ORGANIC CARBON; BIOMASS; HYDROCHARITACEAE; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY;

ALGAE; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENHALUS ACOROIDES; THALASSIA HEMPRICHII;

BIOMASS; CARBON; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; HYDROCHARITACEAE;

EID: 85019476398     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.05.129     Document Type: Article

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