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. Some 29% of all historic seagrass meadows have been destroyed, mainly due to dredging and degradation of water quality. —Fourqurean et al. At least 1.5%
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