Perspective: Increasing Blue Carbon around Antarctica is an ecosystem service of considerable societal and economic value worth protecting
Precautionary conservation and cooperative global governance are needed to protect Antarctic blue carbon: the world’s largest increasing natural form of carbon storage with high sequestration potential. As patterns of ice‐loss around Antarctica become more uniform, there is an underlying increase in...
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ftnerc:oai:nora.nerc.ac.uk:528748 2023-05-15T13:41:45+02:00 Perspective: Increasing Blue Carbon around Antarctica is an ecosystem service of considerable societal and economic value worth protecting Bax, Narissa Sands, Chester J. Gogarty, Brendan Downey, Rachel V. Moreau, Camille V.E. Moreno, Bernabé Held, Christoph Lund Paulsen, Maria McGee, Jeffrey Haward, Marcus Barnes, David K.A. 2021-01 text http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/528748/ https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/528748/1/gcb.15392.pdf https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/gcb.15392 en eng Wiley https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/528748/1/gcb.15392.pdf Bax, Narissa; Sands, Chester J. orcid:0000-0003-1028-0328 Gogarty, Brendan; Downey, Rachel V.; Moreau, Camille V.E.; Moreno, Bernabé; Held, Christoph; Lund Paulsen, Maria; McGee, Jeffrey; Haward, Marcus; Barnes, David K.A. orcid:0000-0002-9076-7867 . 2021 Perspective: Increasing Blue Carbon around Antarctica is an ecosystem service of considerable societal and economic value worth protecting. Global Change Biology, 27 (1). 5-12. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.15392 <https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.15392> Publication - Article PeerReviewed 2021 ftnerc https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.15392 2023-02-04T19:51:14Z Precautionary conservation and cooperative global governance are needed to protect Antarctic blue carbon: the world’s largest increasing natural form of carbon storage with high sequestration potential. As patterns of ice‐loss around Antarctica become more uniform, there is an underlying increase in carbon capture‐to‐storage‐to‐sequestration on the seafloor. The amount of carbon captured per unit area is increasing and the area available to blue carbon is also increasing. Carbon sequestration could further increase under moderate (+1 °C) ocean warming, contrary to decreasing global blue carbon stocks elsewhere. For example, in warmer waters, mangroves and seagrasses are in decline and benthic organisms are close to their physiological limits, so a 1°C increase in water temperature could push them above their thermal tolerance (e.g. bleaching of coral reefs). In contrast, on the basis of past change and current research we expect that Antarctic blue carbon could increase by orders of magnitude. Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarc* Antarctic Antarctica Natural Environment Research Council: NERC Open Research Archive Antarctic Global Change Biology 27 1 5 12 |
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Precautionary conservation and cooperative global governance are needed to protect Antarctic blue carbon: the world’s largest increasing natural form of carbon storage with high sequestration potential. As patterns of ice‐loss around Antarctica become more uniform, there is an underlying increase in carbon capture‐to‐storage‐to‐sequestration on the seafloor. The amount of carbon captured per unit area is increasing and the area available to blue carbon is also increasing. Carbon sequestration could further increase under moderate (+1 °C) ocean warming, contrary to decreasing global blue carbon stocks elsewhere. For example, in warmer waters, mangroves and seagrasses are in decline and benthic organisms are close to their physiological limits, so a 1°C increase in water temperature could push them above their thermal tolerance (e.g. bleaching of coral reefs). In contrast, on the basis of past change and current research we expect that Antarctic blue carbon could increase by orders of magnitude. |
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Bax, Narissa Sands, Chester J. Gogarty, Brendan Downey, Rachel V. Moreau, Camille V.E. Moreno, Bernabé Held, Christoph Lund Paulsen, Maria McGee, Jeffrey Haward, Marcus Barnes, David K.A. |
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Bax, Narissa Sands, Chester J. Gogarty, Brendan Downey, Rachel V. Moreau, Camille V.E. Moreno, Bernabé Held, Christoph Lund Paulsen, Maria McGee, Jeffrey Haward, Marcus Barnes, David K.A. Perspective: Increasing Blue Carbon around Antarctica is an ecosystem service of considerable societal and economic value worth protecting |
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Bax, Narissa Sands, Chester J. Gogarty, Brendan Downey, Rachel V. Moreau, Camille V.E. Moreno, Bernabé Held, Christoph Lund Paulsen, Maria McGee, Jeffrey Haward, Marcus Barnes, David K.A. |
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Perspective: Increasing Blue Carbon around Antarctica is an ecosystem service of considerable societal and economic value worth protecting |
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Perspective: Increasing Blue Carbon around Antarctica is an ecosystem service of considerable societal and economic value worth protecting |
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Perspective: Increasing Blue Carbon around Antarctica is an ecosystem service of considerable societal and economic value worth protecting |
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Perspective: Increasing Blue Carbon around Antarctica is an ecosystem service of considerable societal and economic value worth protecting |
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Perspective: Increasing Blue Carbon around Antarctica is an ecosystem service of considerable societal and economic value worth protecting |
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perspective: increasing blue carbon around antarctica is an ecosystem service of considerable societal and economic value worth protecting |
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https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/528748/1/gcb.15392.pdf Bax, Narissa; Sands, Chester J. orcid:0000-0003-1028-0328 Gogarty, Brendan; Downey, Rachel V.; Moreau, Camille V.E.; Moreno, Bernabé; Held, Christoph; Lund Paulsen, Maria; McGee, Jeffrey; Haward, Marcus; Barnes, David K.A. orcid:0000-0002-9076-7867 . 2021 Perspective: Increasing Blue Carbon around Antarctica is an ecosystem service of considerable societal and economic value worth protecting. Global Change Biology, 27 (1). 5-12. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.15392 <https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.15392> |
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