Researchers find that the global carbon pool in seagrass beds is as much as 19.9B metric tons
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MAY 23, 2012
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. —Fourqurean et al. 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.
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