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Future seagrass beds: Can increased productivity lead to increased carbon storage?
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While carbon capture and storage (CCS) is increasingly recognised as technologically possible, recent evidence from deep-sea CCS activities suggests that leakage from reservoirs may result in highly CO2 impacted biological communities. In contrast, shallow marine waters have higher primary productivity which may partially mitigate this leakage. We used natural CO2 seeps in shallow marine waters to assess if increased benthic primary productivity could capture and store CO2 leakage in areas targeted for CCS. We found that the productivity of seagrass communities (in situ, using natural CO2 seeps) and two individual species (ex situ, Cymodocea serrulata and Halophila ovalis) increased with CO2 concentration, but only species with dense belowground biomass increased in abundance (e.g. C. serrulata). Importantly, the ratio of below:above ground biomass of seagrass communities increased fivefold, making seagrass good candidates to partially mitigate CO2 leakage from sub-seabed reservoirs, since they form carbon sinks that can be buried for millennia.
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“Higher increases in shoot density (194–350%) and above-ground biomass (32–987%) of C. serrulata were observed in natural CO2 vent sites with considerably greater DIC enrichment, compared to adjacent non-CO2 enriched sites [51].”
From Light Levels Affect Carbon Utilisation in Tropical Seagrass under Ocean Acidification (2016) · cites this paper as [51]
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“However, previous studies had indicated an increase in net primary productivity with CO2 enrichment in this species [21, 51].”
From Light Levels Affect Carbon Utilisation in Tropical Seagrass under Ocean Acidification (2016) · cites this paper as [51]
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Metadata
- Authors
- Russell, B. D., Connell, S. D., Uthicke, S., Muehllehner, N., Fabricius, K. E., & Hall-Spencer, J. M.
- Affiliations
- The University of Adelaide (AU)
- Australian Institute of Marine Science (AU)
- University of Miami (US)
- University of Plymouth (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Russell, Bayden D.
- Venue
- Marine Pollution Bulletin
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2013-08
- Volume
- 73
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 463-469
- ISSN
- 0025-326X (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2041105542
- Cited by
- 132
- References
- 43
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 9.45
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- hdl.handle.net
- Locations
- Marine Pollution Bulletin (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- PEARL (University of Plymouth) (submittedVersion)
- Adelaide Research & Scholarship (AR&S) (University of Adelaide) (submittedVersion)
- The HKU Scholars Hub (University of Hong Kong) (submittedVersion)
- Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- Funders
- EU FP7 project MedSeA (265103)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Oceanography › Marine and coastal plant biology
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Environmental Engineering › CO2 Sequestration and Geologic Interactions
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Ecology › Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics
- Keywords
- seagrass, carbon sequestration, CO2 leakage, carbon capture and storage, Cymodocea serrulata, Halophila ovalis, belowground biomass, carbon sink
- MeSH terms
- Carbon Dioxide, Water Pollutants, Chemical, Ecosystem, Hydrocharitaceae, Alismatales, Environmental Restoration and Remediation, Carbon Sequestration
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