Vulnerability of seagrass blue carbon to microbial attack following exposure to warming and oxygen

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 686, Issue , 2019, Pages 264-275

  Macreadie, P I ^a,b   Atwood, T B ^c   Seymour, J R ^b   Fontes, M L Schmitz ^b   Sanderman, J ^d,e   Nielsen, D A ^b   Connolly, R M ^f  

^a DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d WOODS HOLE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^e CSIRO Sustainable Agriculture Flagship   (Australia)

^f GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Blue carbon; Carbon sequestration; Climate change; Emissions; Microbes; Seagrass ecosystems

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; CHEMICAL STABILITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; FORESTRY; GENES; OXYGEN; PARTICULATE EMISSIONS; PLANTS (BOTANY); SEDIMENTS;

ANTHROPOGENIC STRESSORS; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCES; METAGENOMIC ANALYSIS; MICROBES; MICROBIAL ABUNDANCES; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY STRUCTURES; SEAGRASSES;

CARBON;

BLUE CARBON; CARBON; OXYGEN; SULFUR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CARBON SEQUESTRATION; COASTAL SEDIMENT; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; OXYGEN; SEAGRASS MEADOW; VULNERABILITY; WARMING;

ARTICLE; BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLING; CARBON METABOLISM; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FIRMICUTES; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; GREENHOUSE GAS; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; METAGENOMICS; METHANOGENESIS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS; MICROORGANISM; MINERALIZATION; NONHUMAN; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEOBACTERIA; SEAGRASS; SEDIMENT; AQUATIC SPECIES; CLIMATE CHANGE; MICROBIOLOGY; POACEAE;

FIRMICUTES; PROTEOBACTERIA;

AQUATIC ORGANISMS; CARBON; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; OXYGEN; POACEAE; PROTEOBACTERIA; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 85066785427     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.05.462     Document Type: Article

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