Blue carbon as a natural climate solution

PI Macreadie, MDP Costa, TB Atwood… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2021 - nature.com
Blue carbon ecosystems (BCEs), including mangrove forests, seagrass meadows and tidal
marshes, store carbon and provide co-benefits such as coastal protection and fisheries …

Bright spots in coastal marine ecosystem restoration

MI Saunders, C Doropoulos, E Bayraktarov… - Current Biology, 2020 - cell.com
Summary The United Nations General Assembly calls for ecosystem restoration to be a
primary intervention strategy used to counter the continued loss of natural habitats …

Natural climate solutions for Canada

CR Drever, SC Cook-Patton, F Akhter, PH Badiou… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
Alongside the steep reductions needed in fossil fuel emissions, natural climate solutions
(NCS) represent readily deployable options that can contribute to Canada's goals for …

Seagrasses in an era of ocean warming: a review

HM Nguyen, PJ Ralph, L Marín‐Guirao… - Biological …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Seagrasses are valuable sources of food and habitat for marine life and are one of Earth's
most efficient carbon sinks. However, they are facing a global decline due to ocean warming …

The potential for ocean-based climate action: negative emissions technologies and beyond

JP Gattuso, P Williamson, CM Duarte… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The effectiveness, feasibility, duration of effects, co-benefits, disbenefits, cost effectiveness
and governability of four ocean-based negative emissions technologies (NETs) are …

Facilitating foundation species: The potential for plant–bivalve interactions to improve habitat restoration success

K Gagnon, E Rinde, EGT Bengil… - Journal of Applied …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Vegetated marine and freshwater habitats are being increasingly lost around the world.
Habitat restoration is a critical step for conserving these valuable habitats, but new …

Metatranscriptomics and amplicon sequencing reveal mutualisms in seagrass microbiomes

BC Crump, JM Wojahn, F Tomas… - Frontiers in microbiology, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Terrestrial plants benefit from many well-understood mutualistic relationships with root-and
leaf-associated microbiomes, but relatively little is known about these relationships for …

The greenhouse gas offset potential from seagrass restoration

MPJ Oreska, KJ McGlathery, LR Aoki, AC Berger… - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
Awarding CO2 offset credits may incentivize seagrass restoration projects and help reverse
greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from global seagrass loss. However, no study has …

Global status, impacts, and management of rocky temperate mesophotic ecosystems

JJ Bell, V Micaroni, B Harris, F Strano… - Conservation …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The ecology and function of rocky temperate mesophotic ecosystems (TMEs) remain poorly
understood globally despite their widespread distribution. They typically occur at 20–150 m …

Potential of seagrass habitat restorations as nature-based solutions: Practical and scientific implications in Indonesia

H Rifai, JMD Quevedo, KM Lukman, CFA Sondak… - Ambio, 2023 - Springer
Seagrasses offer diverse ecosystem services, yet, they are among the most threatened
ecosystems. When degraded or destroyed, their services are lost or reduced in the process …