Scientists from the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS) explained that seagrass can play a crucial role in fightingagainst the climate change because the plant is 35 times better in locking the carbon than the rainforests. It is important to note that seagrass meadows used to wrap the coastline of Australia at some point of time. The seagrass also served as food for turtles anddugongs, habitat for the fish to breed as well as various other ecosystem services like sediment stabilisation and nutrient recycling. Seagrass helps by capturing and storing the carbon by the process ofa photosynthesis. Seagrass also traps the particles in the water column. This ability of seagrass to absorb carbon dioxide is estimated to be somewhere around 45 billion US dollar, based on the present carbon price of around 23 US dollar perwtonne. This is the consecutive estimate onthe basis of just one seagrass species- Posidonia australis.
Posted on: Thu, 22 Aug 2013 02:02:13 +0000
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