Researchers find that the global carbon pool in seagrass beds is as much as 19.9B metric tons
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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. The Florida Coastal Everglades LTER site is one of 26 such NSF LTER sites around the world in ecosystems from forests to tundra, coral reefs to barrier islands. —Fourqurean et al.
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