Abstract
Marine macrophyte biomass production, burial, oxidation, calcium carbonate dissolution, and metabolically accelerated diffusion of carbon dioxide across the air-sea interface may combine to sequester at least 10 9 tons of carbon per year in the ocean. This carbon sink may partially account for discrepancies in extant global carbon budgets.
Keywords
Sink (geography)Carbon sinkMacrophyteCarbon dioxideEnvironmental scienceCarbon sequestrationCarbon dioxide in Earth's atmosphereCarbon fibersBlue carbonCalcium carbonateCarbonateBiomass (ecology)Carbon cycleOceanographyOcean acidificationTotal inorganic carbonEnvironmental chemistryChemistryEcologySeawaterClimate changeGeologyBiologyEcosystemGeographyMaterials science
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- 211
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- 838-840
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- 368
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Stephen V. Smith
(1981).
Marine Macrophytes as a Global Carbon Sink.
Science
, 211
(4484)
, 838-840.
https://doi.org/10.1126/science.211.4484.838
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- DOI
- 10.1126/science.211.4484.838
- PMID
- 17740399