Blue forests (seagrasses, mangroves and salt marshes) are included in the so called "Blue carbon" ecosystems due to the capacity of those plants to sink Carbon in marine sediments, from dissolved CO2. Nevertheless, many species of corals, algae, mollusks, etc., incorporate Carbon as carbonate from aquatic media and remains for long time forming rocks or marine sediments. Could coral reefs be considered also as Blue forests?
Please check the following link.
http://bluecarbonblog.blogspot.in/2010/09/us-senate-urged-to-pass-coral-reef.html
https://www.iucn.org/sites/dev/files/import/downloads/wetlands_carbon_finance_paper_final_lr.pdf
Dear Daranas
I thing we can considered the corals reef are blue carbon because the ability to containing more communities of marine algae and phytoplankton also may be found marine aquatic plant that provide the marine environment with dissolved oxygen and decrease carbon dioxide
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Dr. Imad
Yes indeed. Coral reefs can sequester huge amounts of carbon from dissolved carbon dioxide as carbonate. In comparison with algae and other productive aquatic organisms, corals have fairly constant structures that could survive for long times. Therefore, its contribution in alleviating the effects of greenhouse phenomenon or climate change because of high carbon emissions should not be ignored.
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SM Najim
I thank the aswers you provided to my question.
Nevertheless, some researchers have told me that the balance of production-respiration in coral reefs provokes more emission of C than the retained one in the ecosystem (structures and sediments). Do you know about any study that dilucidate this issue?
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