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| De Los Santos, Carmen B.; Krause-jensen, Dorte; Alcoverro, Teresa; Marbà, Núria; Duarte, Carlos M.; Van Katwijk, Marieke M.; Pérez, Marta; Romero, Javier; Sánchez-lizaso, José L.; Roca, Guillem; Jankowska, Emilia; Pérez-lloréns, José Lucas; Fournier, Jerome; Montefalcone, Monica; Pergent, Gérard; Ruiz, Juan M.; Cabaço, Susana; Cook, Kevan; Wilkes, Robert J.; Moy, Frithjof E.; Trayter, Gregori Muñoz-ramos; Arañó, Xavier Seglar; De Jong, Dick J.; Fernández-torquemada, Yolanda; Auby, Isabelle; Vergara, Juan J.; Santos, Rui. |
| Seagrass meadows, key ecosystems supporting fisheries, carbon sequestration and coastal protection, are globally threatened. In Europe, loss and recovery of seagrasses are reported, but the changes in extent and density at the continental scale remain unclear. Here we collate assessments of changes from 1869 to 2016 and show that 1/3 of European seagrass area was lost due to disease, deteriorated water quality, and coastal development, with losses peaking in the 1970s and 1980s. Since then, loss rates slowed down for most of the species and fast-growing species recovered in some locations, making the net rate of change in seagrass area experience a reversal in the 2000s, while density metrics improved or remained stable in most sites. Our results... |
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| Ano: 2019 |
URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00508/61966/66058.pdf |
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| Rohr, Maria Emilia; Holmer, Marianne; Baum, Julia K.; Bjork, Mats; Chin, Diana; Chalifour, Lia; Cimon, Stephanie; Cusson, Mathieu; Dahl, Martin; Deyanova, Diana; Duffy, J. Emmet; Eklof, Johan S.; Geyer, Julie K.; Griffin, John N.; Gullstrom, Martin; Hereu, Clara M.; Hori, Masakazu; Hovel, Kevin A.; Hughes, A. Randall; Jorgensen, Pablo; Kiriakopolos, Stephanie; Moksnes, Per-olav; Nakaoka, Masahiro; O'Connor, Mary I.; Peterson, Bradley; Reiss, Katrin; Reynolds, Pamela L.; Rossi, Francesca; Ruesink, Jennifer; Santos, Rui; Stachowicz, John J.; Tomas, Fiona; Lee, Kun-seop; Unsworth, Richard K. F.; Bostrom, Christoffer. |
| Despite the importance of coastal ecosystems for the global carbon budgets, knowledge of their carbon storage capacity and the factors driving variability in storage capacity is still limited. Here we provide an estimate on the magnitude and variability of carbon stocks within a widely distributed marine foundation species throughout its distribution area in temperate Northern Hemisphere. We sampled 54 eelgrass (Zostera marina) meadows, spread across eight ocean margins and 36 degrees of latitude, to determine abiotic and biotic factors influencing organic carbon (C-org) stocks in Zostera marina sediments. The C-org stocks (integrated over 25-cm depth) showed a large variability and ranged from 318 to 26,523gC/m(2) with an average of 2,721gC/m(2). The... |
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Palavras-chave: Blue carbon; Seagrass; Z; Marina. |
| Ano: 2018 |
URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00610/72199/70994.pdf |
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