There are plenty of estimates on salt marshes, mangroves and seagrass meadows. I am more interested in the contribution of algal forests, such as kelp or fucoides.
I was able to find estimates by:
S. V. Smith, 1981 - Marine macrophytes as a global carbon sink.
Gattuso et al., 1998 - Carbon and Carbonate Metabolism in Coastal Aquatic Ecosystems
Is there anything more current?
I also found a book chapter by Middelburg et al, 2005 that has respiration rates only..
Ohad, check this one:
Chung, I.K., Beardall, J., Mehta, S., Sahoo, D. and Stojkovic, S., 2011. Using marine macroalgae for carbon sequestration: a critical appraisal. Journal of Applied Phycology, 23(5), pp.877-886.
It includes carbon assessments for several phaeophytes.
Thanks Tamar, you're the best!
I know this one as well, I'll look into it again.
Thank you Arvind,
I was not familiar with Frankignoulle & Bouquegneau 1987
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