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Seagrass blue carbon dynamics in the Gulf of Mexico: Stocks, losses from anthropogenic disturbance, and gains through seagrass restoration.
Thorhaug, Anitra; Poulos, Helen M; López-Portillo, Jorge; Ku, Timothy C W; Berlyn, Graeme P.
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  • Thorhaug A; Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, New Haven, CT 06511, United States. Electronic address: athorhaug@msn.com.
  • Poulos HM; Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, New Haven, CT 06511, United States; Wesleyan University, College of the Environment, Middletown, CT 06457, United States. Electronic address: hpoulos@wesleyan.edu.
  • López-Portillo J; Instituto de Ecología, A.C. (INECOL), Xalapa, Veracruz 91070, Mexico. Electronic address: jorge.lopez.portillo@inecol.mx.
  • Ku TCW; Wesleyan University, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Middletown, CT 06459, United States. Electronic address: tcku@wesleyan.edu.
  • Berlyn GP; Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, New Haven, CT 06511, United States. Electronic address: Graeme.berlyn@yale.edu.
Sci Total Environ ; 605-606: 626-636, 2017 Dec 15.
Article em En | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-28672251
Seagrasses comprise a substantive North American and Caribbean Sea blue carbon sink. Yet fine-scale estimates of seagrass carbon stocks, fluxes from anthropogenic disturbances, and potential gains in sedimentary carbon from seagrass restoration are lacking for most of the Western Hemisphere. To begin to fill this knowledge gap in the subtropics and tropics, we quantified organic carbon (Corg) stocks, losses, and gains from restorations at 8 previously-disturbed seagrass sites around the Gulf of Mexico (GoM) (n=128 cores). Mean natural seagrass Corg stocks were 25.7±6.7MgCorgha-1 around the GoM, while mean Corg stocks at adjacent barren sites that had previously hosted seagrass were 17.8MgCorgha-1. Restored seagrass beds contained a mean of 38.7±13.1MgCorgha-1. Mean Corg losses differed by anthropogenic impact type, but averaged 20.98±7.14MgCorgha-1. Corg gains from seagrass restoration averaged 20.96±8.59Mgha-1. These results, when combined with the similarity between natural and restored Corg content, highlight the potential of seagrass restoration for mitigating seagrass Corg losses from prior impact events. Our GoM basin-wide estimates of natural Corg totaled ~36.4Tg for the 947,327ha for the USA-GoM. Including Mexico, the total basin contained an estimated 37.2-37.5Tg Corg. Regional US-GoM losses totaled 21.69Tg Corg. Corg losses differed significantly among anthropogenic impacts. Yet, seagrass restoration appears to be an important climate change mitigation strategy that could be implemented elsewhere throughout the tropics and subtropics.
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Texto completo: 1 Coleções: 01-internacional Base de dados: MEDLINE Assunto principal: Carbono / Ecossistema / Hydrocharitaceae / Recuperação e Remediação Ambiental / Ciclo do Carbono País/Região como assunto: Mexico Idioma: En Revista: Sci Total Environ Ano de publicação: 2017 Tipo de documento: Article País de publicação: Holanda
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Texto completo: 1 Coleções: 01-internacional Base de dados: MEDLINE Assunto principal: Carbono / Ecossistema / Hydrocharitaceae / Recuperação e Remediação Ambiental / Ciclo do Carbono País/Região como assunto: Mexico Idioma: En Revista: Sci Total Environ Ano de publicação: 2017 Tipo de documento: Article País de publicação: Holanda