Reply to: Rectifying misinformation on the climate intervention potential of ocean afforestation

Lennart T Bach¹, Veronica Tamsitt², Jim Gower³, Catriona L Hurd⁴, John A Raven^{5

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7}, Wouter Visch⁴, Philip W Boyd⁴

Affiliations

¹ Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS, Australia. Lennart.bach@utas.edu.au.
² College of Marine Science, University of South Florida, St Petersberg, FL, USA.
³ Fisheries and Oceans Canada, North Saanich, BC, Canada.
⁴ Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS, Australia.
⁵ Division of Plant Sciences, University of Dundee at the James Hutton Institute, Dundee, UK.
⁶ Climate Change Cluster, University of Technology, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
⁷ School of Biological Sciences, University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA, Australia.

Lennart T Bach et al. Nat Commun. 2024.

. 2024 Apr 9;15(1):3011.

doi: 10.1038/s41467-024-47135-5.

Lennart T Bach¹, Veronica Tamsitt², Jim Gower³, Catriona L Hurd⁴, John A Raven^{5

6

7}, Wouter Visch⁴, Philip W Boyd⁴

¹ Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS, Australia. Lennart.bach@utas.edu.au.
² College of Marine Science, University of South Florida, St Petersberg, FL, USA.
³ Fisheries and Oceans Canada, North Saanich, BC, Canada.
⁴ Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS, Australia.
⁵ Division of Plant Sciences, University of Dundee at the James Hutton Institute, Dundee, UK.
⁶ Climate Change Cluster, University of Technology, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
⁷ School of Biological Sciences, University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA, Australia.

No abstract available

Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare no competing interests.

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