Factors Influencing Carbon Stocks and Accumulation Rates in Eelgrass Meadows Across New England, USA
Increasing the protection of coastal vegetated ecosystems has been suggested as one strategy to compensate for increasing carbon dioxide (CO(2)) in the atmosphere as the capacity of these habitats to sequester and store carbon exceeds that of terrestrial habitats. Seagrasses are a group of foundatio...
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ftpubmed:oai:pubmedcentral.nih.gov:7751660 2023-05-15T17:45:41+02:00 Factors Influencing Carbon Stocks and Accumulation Rates in Eelgrass Meadows Across New England, USA Novak, A. B. Pelletier, M. C. Colarusso, P. Simpson, J. Gutierrez, M. N. Arias-Ortiz, A. Charpentier, M. Masque, P. Vella, P. 2020-12-01 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7751660/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33364916 en eng http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7751660/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33364916 Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. CC-BY Estuaries Coast Article Text 2020 ftpubmed 2021-12-05T01:34:05Z Increasing the protection of coastal vegetated ecosystems has been suggested as one strategy to compensate for increasing carbon dioxide (CO(2)) in the atmosphere as the capacity of these habitats to sequester and store carbon exceeds that of terrestrial habitats. Seagrasses are a group of foundation species that grow in shallow coastal and estuarine systems and have an exceptional ability to sequester and store large quantities of carbon in biomass and, particularly, in sediments. However, carbon stocks (C(org) stocks) and carbon accumulation rates (C(org) accumulation) in seagrass meadows are highly variable both spatially and temporally, making it difficult to extrapolate this strategy to areas where information is lacking. In this study, C(org) stocks and C(org) accumulation were determined at 11 eelgrass meadows across New England, representing a range of eutrophication and exposure conditions. In addition, the environmental factors and structural characteristics of meadows related to variation in C(org) stocks were identified. The objectives were accomplished by assessing stable isotopes of δ(13)C and δ(15)N as well as %C and %N in plant tissues and sediments, measuring grain size and (210)Pb of sediment cores, and through assessing site exposure. Variability in C(org) stocks in seagrass meadows is well predicted using commonly measured environmental variables such as grain size distribution. This study allows incorporation of data and insights for the northwest Atlantic, where few studies on carbon sequestration by seagrasses have been conducted. Text Northwest Atlantic PubMed Central (PMC) |
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Increasing the protection of coastal vegetated ecosystems has been suggested as one strategy to compensate for increasing carbon dioxide (CO(2)) in the atmosphere as the capacity of these habitats to sequester and store carbon exceeds that of terrestrial habitats. Seagrasses are a group of foundation species that grow in shallow coastal and estuarine systems and have an exceptional ability to sequester and store large quantities of carbon in biomass and, particularly, in sediments. However, carbon stocks (C(org) stocks) and carbon accumulation rates (C(org) accumulation) in seagrass meadows are highly variable both spatially and temporally, making it difficult to extrapolate this strategy to areas where information is lacking. In this study, C(org) stocks and C(org) accumulation were determined at 11 eelgrass meadows across New England, representing a range of eutrophication and exposure conditions. In addition, the environmental factors and structural characteristics of meadows related to variation in C(org) stocks were identified. The objectives were accomplished by assessing stable isotopes of δ(13)C and δ(15)N as well as %C and %N in plant tissues and sediments, measuring grain size and (210)Pb of sediment cores, and through assessing site exposure. Variability in C(org) stocks in seagrass meadows is well predicted using commonly measured environmental variables such as grain size distribution. This study allows incorporation of data and insights for the northwest Atlantic, where few studies on carbon sequestration by seagrasses have been conducted. |
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Factors Influencing Carbon Stocks and Accumulation Rates in Eelgrass Meadows Across New England, USA |
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Factors Influencing Carbon Stocks and Accumulation Rates in Eelgrass Meadows Across New England, USA |
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Factors Influencing Carbon Stocks and Accumulation Rates in Eelgrass Meadows Across New England, USA |
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Factors Influencing Carbon Stocks and Accumulation Rates in Eelgrass Meadows Across New England, USA |
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