BLUE CARBON – THE ROLE OF OCEANS AS CARBON SINKS：蓝碳–海洋碳汇的作用.Image.Marked.pdfVIP

BLUE CARBON – THE ROLE OF OCEANS AS CARBON SINKS Vegetated coastal habitats – mangrove forests, salt-marshes and seagrass meadows – have much in common with rain forests: they are hot spots for biodiversity, they provide important and valuable ecosystem functions, including a large carbon sink capacity, and they are experiencing a steep global decline (Duarte et al., 2008, Duarte, 2009). Indeed, the world is losing its coastal habitats four times faster than its rain forests (Duarte et al., 2008, Duarte, 2009) and the rate of loss is accelerating (Waycott et al., 2