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A trait-based framework for seagrass ecology: trends and prospects
Moreira-Saporiti, Agustín; Teichberg, Mirta; Garnier, Eric; Cornelissen, J. Hans C.; Alcoverro, Teresa; Björk, Mats; Boström, ChristofferIn the last three decades, quantitative approaches that rely on organism traits instead of taxonomy have advanced different fields of ecological research through establishing the mechanistic links between environmental drivers, functional traits, and ecosystem functions. A research subfield where trait-based approaches have been frequently used but poorly synthesized is the ecology of seagrasses; marine angiosp...
Dynamics and fate of blue carbon in a mangrove–seagrass seascape: influence of ...
Dahl, Martin; Ismail, Rashid O.; Arias-Ortiz, Ariane; Deyanova, Diana; Franco, Joao N.; Hammar, Linus; Hoamby, Arielle I.; Linderholm, Hans W.Context: Seagrass meadows act as efficient natural carbon sinks by sequestering atmospheric CO2 and through trapping of allochthonous organic material, thereby preserving organic carbon (Corg) in their sediments. Less understood is the influence of landscape configuration and transformation (land-use change) on carbon sequestration dynamics in coastal seascapes across the land–sea interface. Objectives: We expl...
High seasonal variability in sediment carbon stocks of cold‐temperate seagrass ...
Dahl, Martin; Asplund, Maria E.; Deyanova, Diana; Franco, Joao N.; Koliji, Alan; Infantes, Eduardo; Perry, Diana; Björk, Mats; Gullström, MartinSeagrass meadows have a high ability to capture and store atmospheric CO2 in the plant biomass and underlying sediment and thereby function as efficient carbon sinks. The seagrass Zostera marina is a common species in the temperate Northern Hemisphere, a region with strong seasonal variations in climate. How seasonality affects carbon storage capacity in seagrass meadows is largely unknown, and therefore, in th...