Estimating global "blue carbon" emissions from conversion and degradation of vegetated coastal ecosystems.

Estimating global "blue carbon" emissions from conversion and degradation of vegetated coastal ecosystems.

Recent attention has focused on the high rates of annual carbon sequestration in vegetated coastal ecosystems--marshes, mangroves, and seagrasses--that may be lost with habitat destruction ('conversion'). Relatively unappreciated, however, is that conversion of these coastal ecosystems als...

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Main Authors: Linwood Pendleton, Daniel C Donato, Brian C Murray, Stephen Crooks, W Aaron Jenkins, Samantha Sifleet, Christopher Craft, James W Fourqurean, J Boone Kauffman, Núria Marbà, Patrick Megonigal, Emily Pidgeon, Dorothee Herr, David Gordon, Alexis Baldera
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3433453?pdf=render

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