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A Seagrass bed in the Maldives. "Seagrass Ecosystems as a Globally Significant Carbon Stock," is the first global analysis of carbon stored in seagrasses.
The results demonstrate that coastal seagrass beds store up to 83,000 metric tons of carbon per square kilometer, mostly in the soils beneath them.
As a comparison, a typical terrestrial forest stores about 30,000 metric tons per square kilometer, most of which is in the form of wood. Photo: Paul Hilton / Earth Tree Images
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- Paul Hilton / Earth Tree Images
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- Contained in galleries
- Seagrass