Water column oxygenation by Posidonia oceanica seagrass meadows in coastal areas: A modelling approach

Seagrass meadows are among the most abundant marine coastal ecosystems in the world. The wide variety of species, a worldwide distribution with overall high abundance, and especially their high productivity make them a plausible nature-based blue carbon solution to mitigate atmospheric CO2 levels. I...

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Autores: Agueda Aramburu, Peru, Flecha, Susana, Morell Lujan-Williams, Alejandro, Hendriks, Iris E.
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2024
País:España
Institución:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
Repositorio:DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC
OAI Identifier:oai:digital.csic.es:10261/380032
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10261/380032
https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/85195407360
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Seagrass meadows Posidonia oceanica
Ecosystem services
Mediterranean Sea
Metabolic rates
Oxygenation
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Sumario:Seagrass meadows are among the most abundant marine coastal ecosystems in the world. The wide variety of species, a worldwide distribution with overall high abundance, and especially their high productivity make them a plausible nature-based blue carbon solution to mitigate atmospheric CO2 levels. In the Mediterranean Basin, the endemic angiosperm Posidonia oceanica plays a remarkable role as a marine habitat provider in shallow waters through its vertical growth and as a carbon sink storing allochthonous carbon and biomass underneath the meadows.