Biogeosciences
Biogeosciences
BG
Articles | Volume 13, issue 17
Articles | Volume 13, issue 17
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-13-4915-2016
© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-13-4915-2016
© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Articles | Volume 13, issue 17
Research article
 | 
07 Sep 2016
Research article |  | 07 Sep 2016

Can mud (silt and clay) concentration be used to predict soil organic carbon content within seagrass ecosystems?

Oscar Serrano, Paul S. Lavery, Carlos M. Duarte, Gary A. Kendrick, Antoni Calafat, Paul H. York, Andy Steven, and Peter I. Macreadie

Viewed

Total article views: 5,482 (including HTML, PDF, and XML)
HTML PDF XML Total BibTeX EndNote
3,221 2,105 156 5,482 142 175
  • HTML: 3,221
  • PDF: 2,105
  • XML: 156
  • Total: 5,482
  • BibTeX: 142
  • EndNote: 175
Views and downloads (calculated since 18 Jan 2016)
Cumulative views and downloads (calculated since 18 Jan 2016)
Latest update: 04 Dec 2025
Download
Short summary
We explored the relationship between organic carbon and mud (i.e. silt and clay) contents in seagrass ecosystems to address whether mud can be used to predict soil C content, thereby enabling robust scaling up exercises at a low cost as part of blue carbon stock assessments. We show that mud is not a universal proxy for blue carbon content in seagrass ecosystems, but it can be used to estimate soil Corg content when low biomass seagrass species (i.e. Zostera, Halodule and Halophila) are present.
Read more
Share
Altmetrics
Final-revised paper
Preprint