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. 1981 Feb 20;211(4484):838-40.
doi: 10.1126/science.211.4484.838.

Marine macrophytes as a global carbon sink

S V Smith

Marine macrophytes as a global carbon sink

S V Smith. Science. .

Abstract

Marine macrophyte biomass production, burial, oxidation, calcium carbonate dissolution, and metabolically accelerated diffusion of carbon dioxide across the air-sea interface may combine to sequester at least 10(9) tons of carbon per year in the ocean. This carbon sink may partially account for discrepancies in extant global carbon budgets.

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