Researchers find that the global carbon pool in seagrass beds is as much as 19.9B metric tons
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MAY 23, 2012
Per unit area, seagrass meadows can store up to twice as much carbon as the world’s temperate and tropical forests, according to a paper this week in the journal Nature Geoscience. The paper, “Seagrass Ecosystems as a Globally Significant Carbon Stock,” is the first global analysis of carbon stored in seagrasses.
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