Seagrass community-level controls over organic carbon storage are constrained by geophysical attributes within meadows of Zanzibar, Tanzania

Belshe, Elizabeth Fay; Hoeijmakers, Dieuwke; Herran, Natalia; Mtolera, Matern; Teichberg, Mirta

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-15-4609-2018

Articles | Volume 15, issue 14

https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-15-4609-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-15-4609-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 15, issue 14

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27 Jul 2018

Research article |

| 27 Jul 2018

Seagrass community-level controls over organic carbon storage are constrained by geophysical attributes within meadows of Zanzibar, Tanzania

Elizabeth Fay Belshe, Dieuwke Hoeijmakers, Natalia Herran, Matern Mtolera, and Mirta Teichberg

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RC1: 'rev bg-2017-474', Anonymous Referee #1, 24 Jan 2018
- AC1: 'Replies to RC1', E. Fay Belshe, 23 Feb 2018
RC2: 'Review on manuscript by Belshe et al.', Anonymous Referee #2, 26 Jan 2018
- AC2: 'Replies to RC2', E. Fay Belshe, 23 Feb 2018

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

ED: Reconsider after major revisions (05 Mar 2018) by Peter van Bodegom

AR by E. Fay Belshe on behalf of the Authors (08 Mar 2018) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (08 May 2018) by Peter van Bodegom

RR by Anonymous Referee #2 (25 May 2018)

ED: Publish as is (16 Jul 2018) by Peter van Bodegom

AR by E. Fay Belshe on behalf of the Authors (17 Jul 2018)

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This work aimed to see if easy-to-measure characteristics of seagrass plants can be used to identify differences in sediment organic carbon (OC) storage. We found clear differences in three characteristics thought to influence sediment OC; however, these differences did not translate into different amounts of sediment OC, and sediment OC was very low. This highlights the complexity of OC cycling in seagrasses and cautions against the use of plant characteristics as a proxy for OC storage.