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Seagrass excretes sugars to their rhizosphere making them the sweet spots in the sea
[article]
2019
bioRxiv
pre-print
Seagrasses are one of the most efficient natural sinks of carbon dioxide on Earth. Despite covering less than 0.1 % of coastal regions, they have the capacity to bury up to 10 % of marine organic matter and can bury the same amount of carbon 35 times faster than tropical rainforests. On land, the soils ability to sequestrate carbon is intimately linked to microbial metabolism. Despite the growing attention to the link between plant production, microbial communities, and the carbon cycle in
doi:10.1101/797522
fatcat:loeil25ambevjl4wzlvm7inw3y