Warming enhances carbon dioxide and methane fluxes from Red Sea seagrass (<i>Halophila stipulacea</i>) sediments

Burkholz, Celina; Garcias-Bonet, Neus; Duarte, Carlos M.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-17-1717-2020

Articles | Volume 17, issue 7

Biogeosciences, 17, 1717–1730, 2020

https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-17-1717-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
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Biogeosciences, 17, 1717–1730, 2020

https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-17-1717-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 17, issue 7

Research article 03 Apr 2020

Research article | 03 Apr 2020

Warming enhances carbon dioxide and methane fluxes from Red Sea seagrass (Halophila stipulacea) sediments

Celina Burkholz et al.

Supplement

https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-17-1717-2020-supplement

Data sets

Carbon dioxide and methane fluxes from Red Sea seagrass sediments Celina Burkholz, Neus Garcias-Bonet, and Carlos M. Duarte https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.905687

Short summary

Seagrass meadows store carbon in their biomass and sediments, but they have also been shown to be sources of carbon dioxide (CO₂) and methane (CH₄). We experimentally investigated the effect of warming and prolonged darkness on CO₂ and CH₄ fluxes in Red Sea seagrass (Halophila stipulacea) communities. Our results indicated that sublethal warming may lead to increased emissions of greenhouse gases from seagrass meadows which may contribute to further enhance global warming.