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Landscape- and site-scale spatial variability of blue carbon stocks and fluxes in tropical seagrass meadows
Centre for Nature-based Climate Solutions, Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore, Singapore, 117558, Singapore
Kiah Eng Lim
Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore, Singapore, 117558, Singapore
Muhammad Ariq Khalingga
Centre for Nature-based Climate Solutions, Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore, Singapore, 117558, Singapore
Pierre Taillardat
Asian School of the Environment, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore
Sheryl Chan Si Ern
Centre for Nature-based Climate Solutions, Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore, Singapore, 117558, Singapore
Lian Pin Koh
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Centre for Nature-based Climate Solutions, Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore, Singapore, 117558, Singapore
Daniel A. Friess
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Tulane University, New Orleans, 70118, USA
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We studied how blue carbon stocks and CO2 and CH4 fluxes vary at the landscape scale in tropical seagrass meadows. By testing six seagrass meadows across Singapore, we found that carbon stocks 0-25 cm and flux variability is not shaped by geomorphic settings, at least at the intermediate landscape scale. Our results support the inclusion of greenhouse gas fluxes in carbon accounting schemes.
We studied how blue carbon stocks and CO2 and CH4 fluxes vary at the landscape scale in tropical...
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