Blue carbon storage in a sub-Antarctic marine protected area.
Blue carbon
Carbonates
Marine protected areas
Nature contributions to people
Journal
Scientific reports
ISSN: 2045-2322
Titre abrégé: Sci Rep
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101563288
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
04 Sep 2024
04 Sep 2024
Historique:
received:
15
05
2024
accepted:
27
08
2024
medline:
5
9
2024
pubmed:
5
9
2024
entrez:
4
9
2024
Statut:
epublish
Résumé
High-latitude ecosystems have been overlooked in carbon budgets, which traditionally focus on mangroves, salt marshes, and seagrasses. The benthic assemblages and their Nature Contributions to People in Namuncurá - Burdwood Bank I and II, two offshore sub-Antarctic Marine Protected Areas (MPAs), are the conservation values. Here we show that the carbon reservoirs of these MPAs can be greater than those of their Antarctic counterparts, which, together with their extension, emphasize the need to maintain their protected status. Considering their total area, these MPAs stored in biomass 52,085.78 Mg C, corresponding 34,964.16 Mg to organic carbon (OC) and 17,121.62 Mg to inorganic carbon (IC). Surficial sediments stored 933,258,336 Mg C with 188,089,629 Mg of OC and 745,168,707 Mg of IC. However, when accounting for CO
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pubmed: 39232073
doi: 10.1038/s41598-024-71319-0
pii: 10.1038/s41598-024-71319-0
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eng
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Organisme : Agencia Nacional de Promoción de la Investigación, el Desarrollo Tecnológico y la Innovación of Argentina
ID : PICT 2018-2125
Organisme : Secretaría de Ciencia y Tecnología de la Universidad Nacional de Córdoba
ID : 2018-20180100077CB
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