Can seaweed farming play a role in climate change mitigation and adaptation?

Frontiers in Marine Science

Volumn 4, Issue APR, 2017, Pages

  Duarte, Carlos M ^a,b   Wu, Jiaping ^c   Xiao, Xi ^c   Bruhn, Annette ^b   Krause Jensen, Dorte ^b  

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

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Aquaculture; Carbon dioxide; Climate change; Macroalgae; Seaweed; Sequestration

Indexed keywords

EID: 85020117533     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22967745     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmars.2017.00100     Document Type: Article

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