Marine Macrophytes as a Global Carbon Sink
- 20 February 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 211 (4484) , 838-840
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.211.4484.838
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.This publication has 23 references indexed in Scilit:
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