Friday, October 19, 2012

Australia: The role of coastal estuaries in cleansing the atmosphere

Coffs Coast Advocate: AUSTRALIAN estuaries may be more important than previously thought in capturing and storing carbon from the atmosphere, according to new research from Southern Cross University's Centre for Coastal Biogeochemistry Research. Dr Damien Maher and Centre director Professor Bradley Eyre have published a paper in Global Biogeochemical Cycles that measured carbon flows and CO2 fluxes in three temperate Australian estuaries. "Knowing carbon fluxes from these ecosystems is important in understanding...

URL: http://www.coffscoastadvocate.com.au/news/estuaries-role-cleansing-atmosphere/1589095/

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