The blue carbon of southern southwest Atlantic salt marshes and their biotic and abiotic drivers.
Journal
Nature communications
ISSN: 2041-1723
Titre abrégé: Nat Commun
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101528555
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
22 Dec 2023
22 Dec 2023
Historique:
received:
04
07
2023
accepted:
04
12
2023
medline:
23
12
2023
pubmed:
23
12
2023
entrez:
22
12
2023
Statut:
epublish
Résumé
Coastal vegetated ecosystems are acknowledged for their capacity to sequester organic carbon (OC), known as blue C. Yet, blue C global accounting is incomplete, with major gaps in southern hemisphere data. It also shows a large variability suggesting that the interaction between environmental and biological drivers is important at the local scale. In southwest Atlantic salt marshes, to account for the space occupied by crab burrows, it is key to avoid overestimates. Here we found that southern southwest Atlantic salt marshes store on average 42.43 (SE = 27.56) Mg OC·ha
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pubmed: 38135682
doi: 10.1038/s41467-023-44196-w
pii: 10.1038/s41467-023-44196-w
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eng
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