Shading and simulated grazing increase the sulphide pool and methane emission in a tropical seagrass meadow

Marine Pollution Bulletin

Volumn 134, Issue , 2018, Pages 89-93

  Lyimo, Liberatus D ^a,b   Gullström, Martin ^a   Lyimo, Thomas J ^c   Deyanova, Diana ^a   Dahl, Martin ^a   Hamisi, Mariam I ^b   Björk, Mats ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DODOMA   (Tanzania)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DAR ES SALAAM   (Tanzania)

Author keywords

Disturbances; Hydrogen sulphide; Methane; Seagrass meadows

Indexed keywords

BIODEGRADATION; BIOMASS; HYDROGEN SULFIDE; METHANE; SEDIMENTS; SULFUR COMPOUNDS;

ANTHROPOGENIC ACTIVITY; BELOWGROUND BIOMASS; DISTURBANCES; IN-SITU EXPERIMENTS; SEAGRASS MEADOWS; SEDIMENT PORE WATER; SULPHATE REDUCING BACTERIA; SULPHIDE CONCENTRATION;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

METHANE; SULFIDE; SURFACE WATER;

BELOWGROUND BIOMASS; BIOMASS; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DISTURBANCE; GRAZING; HYDROGEN SULFIDE; METHANE; SEAGRASS MEADOW;

AIR POLLUTION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DEGRADATION KINETICS; GRAM NEGATIVE ANAEROBIC BACTERIA; GRAZING; METHANOGEN; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN TRANSPORT; PLANT SHADING; SEAGRASS; SEDIMENT; SIMULATION; SURFACE PROPERTY; TANZANIA;

TANZANIA; ZANZIBAR ISLAND;

EID: 85029505281     PISSN: 0025326X     EISSN: 18793363     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2017.09.005     Document Type: Article

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