In this context, functional saturation is defined as the state in which a system's capacity to sustain additional productive or regulatory functions becomes constrained due to cumulative anthropogenic...
Mangroves provide vital coastal ecosystem services, including shoreline protection, fisheries support, biodiversity conservation, and blue carbon sequestration. Using multi-temporal remote sensing and...
Particulate (POC) and dissolved (DOC) organic carbon released during macroalgae cultivation has been shown to lead to carbon burial and export to the open ocean and deep sea. The recalcitrant portion ...
Mesopelagic fishes transport a vast biomass of organic material between surface and deep waters through diel vertical migration (DVM), which plays a crucial role in both food web functioning and deep-...
Mangrove ecosystems are highly efficient natural carbon sinks, yet quantifying soil organic carbon density (SOCD) across stand ages is critical for evaluating restoration benefits. This study integrat...
Carbon fixation in marine ecosystems is a vital process that contributes to climate regulation, with ocean sediments playing a critical role in carbon sequestration. This process is driven by chemolit...
The ocean carbon cycle spans multiple scales and reservoirs, challenging efforts to build a coherent picture and fostering misconceptions or fragmented narratives in science and public discourse. Comm...
Coastal wetlands are crucial "blue carbon" ecosystems. Previous studies primarily focus on vertical carbon sequestration in carbon sink assessments, often overlooking the key pathway of lateral carbon...
Aquaculture is the fastest-growing food-producing sector globally, yet intensive farming in China has led to severe ecological degradation of coastal marine pastures, including habitat loss, disease o...
Understanding the current and future trajectories of critical habitats is essential for biodiversity conservation and ecosystem management, especially in semi-enclosed environments such as the Mediter...
The silica cycle is intimately coupled with marine food-web dynamics, biogeochemical transformations, and the efficiency of the biological carbon pump (BCP). To elucidate the factors controlling bioge...