dc.contributor.author | Huxham, M. | |
dc.contributor.author | Whitlock, D. | |
dc.contributor.author | Githaiga, M. | |
dc.contributor.author | Dencer-Brown, A. | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-05-11T15:47:57Z | |
dc.date.available | 2018-05-11T15:47:57Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2018-04 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Current Forestry Reports 2018 | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 2198-6436 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://doi.org/10.1007/s40725-018-0077-4 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/1332 | |
dc.description | Human and Animal Rights Statement All reported studies/experiments
with human or animal subjects performed by the authors have been previously
published and complied with all applicable ethical standards (including
the Helsinki declaration and its amendments, institutional/
national research committee standards and international/national/institutional
guidelines). | en_US |
dc.description.abstract | Purpose of Review We use the ‘seascape’ concept to explore how interactions between mangrove forests, tidal marshes and
seagrass influence the storage of carbon in these ecosystems. Mangrove forests, with the other two ‘blue carbon’ habitats, are
exceptionally powerful carbon sinks. Maintaining and enhancing these sinks is an emerging priority in climate change mitigation.
However, managing any one ecosystem on its own risks is ignoring important contextual drivers of carbon storage emerging from
its place in the seascape. We consider how interactions between these coastal habitats directly or indirectly affect the amounts of
carbon they can store.
Recent Findings The export of carbon from seagrasses may occur over hundreds or thousands of kilometres, much further than
reported for mangroves or tidal marshes. Seagrasses may buffer mangroves from wave impacts, assisting forest regeneration.
Trophic cascades supported by contiguous blue carbon habitat may limit excessive herbivory and bioturbation in them but
evidence is limited.
Summary Direct transfers of carbon between blue carbon habitats are common and are likely to enhance total carbon storage, but
our understanding of their contribution to carbon stocks at the seascape level is elementary. There is evidence for indirect
enhancement of carbon storage at the seascape by close association of habitats, mostly through the creation and maintenance
of propitious conditions by one ecosystem for another. Protection from waves of mangroves by seagrass and protection from
excess nutrients and sediment of seagrass by mangroves and tidal marsh are key mechanisms. There is little evidence or theory
suggesting negative effects on carbon storage of one blue carbon habitat on another | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.publisher | Springer | en_US |
dc.subject | Mangrove | en_US |
dc.subject | Seagrass | en_US |
dc.subject | Tidal marsh | en_US |
dc.subject | Carbon | en_US |
dc.subject | Seascape | en_US |
dc.subject | Sequestration | en_US |
dc.title | Carbon in the Coastal Seascape: How Interactions Between Mangrove Forests, Seagrass Meadows and Tidal Marshes Influence Carbon Storage | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |