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Mögliche Beiträge geologischer und mariner Kohlenstoffspeicher zur Dekarbonisierung
Es werden mögliche Beiträge geologischer und mariner Kohlenstoffspeicher für die Vermeidung von CO2-Emissionen in die Atmosphäre oder für die Entnahme von bereits emittiertem CO2 aus der Atmosphäre vorgestellt. ...
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Open AccessAre Crab-collectors in Mangroves of Northern Brazil (PA) Optimal Foragers?
Intensive harvesting of the mangrove crab Ucides cordatus provides subsistence for food and main or additional income to many inhabitants of mangrove areas in Northern Brazil. In order to better understand the sp...
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Open AccessMonitoring the response of volcanic CO2 emissions to changes in the Los Humeros hydrothermal system
Carbon dioxide is the most abundant, non-condensable gas in volcanic systems, released into the atmosphere through either diffuse or advective fluid flow. The emission of substantial amounts of CO2 at Earth’s sur...
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Open AccessCo-benefits of protecting mangroves for biodiversity conservation and carbon storage
The conservation of ecosystems and their biodiversity has numerous co-benefits, both for local societies and for humankind worldwide. While the co-benefit of climate change mitigation through so called blue ca...
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Open AccessCorrection to: Plant species- and stage-specific differences in microbial decay of mangrove leaf litter: the older the better?
A correction to this paper has been published: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00442-021-04887-x
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Open AccessPlant species- and stage-specific differences in microbial decay of mangrove leaf litter: the older the better?
Leaf litter and its breakdown products represent an important input of organic matter and nutrients to mangrove sediments and adjacent coastal ecosystems. It is commonly assumed that old-grown stands with matu...
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A window on mantle-derived magmas within the Central Andes: eruption style transitions at Cerro Overo maar and La Albóndiga lava dome, northern Chile
Cerro Overo maar and La Albóndiga lava dome are two independent monogenetic volcanoes located in the Central Volcanic Zone of the Andes in northern Chile, close to the active Lascar and Chiliques volcanoes. Ce...
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Open AccessGeological CO2 quantified by high-temporal resolution stable isotope monitoring in a salt mine
The relevance of CO2 emissions from geological sources to the atmospheric carbon budget is becoming increasingly recognized. Although geogenic gas migration along faults and in volcanic zones is generally well st...
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Open AccessSources of Particulate Organic Matter across Mangrove Forests and Adjacent Ecosystems in Different Geomorphic Settings
Mangrove forests are among the world’s most productive ecosystems and provide essential ecosystem services such as global climate regulation through the sequestration of carbon. A detailed understanding of the...
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Phenol Oxidation
Lignins are major structural components of plant cell walls and hence of plant litter. The complex polymer effectively resists chemical and enzymatic attack, even more than other important phenolic litter cons...
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Physical Litter Properties: Leaf Toughness and Tensile Strength
Physical leaf attributes such as tensile strength and toughness have proved to be good predictors of litter decomposition by invertebrates and microbes. This chapter describes two methods for assessing leaf to...
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Cellulases
Cellulose is the most abundant polymer in the living world. Its enzymatic degradation is a crucial step in the decomposition of plant litter. Despite a wide variety of enzymatic mechanisms contributing to cell...
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Open AccessEffects of temperature on carbon circulation in macroalgal food webs are mediated by herbivores
Warming is one of the most dramatic aspects of climate change and threatens future ecosystem functioning. It may alter primary productivity and thus jeopardize carbon sequestration, a crucial ecosystem service...
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High-Throughput Techniques As Support for Knowledge-Based Spatial Conservation Prioritization in Mangrove Ecosystems
The conservation of functioning ecosystems worldwide is warranted by the need for reliable and sustainable provision of ecosystem services locally, regionally and globally. Mangroves provide numerous ecosystem...
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Ecosystem Design: When Mangrove Ecology Meets Human Needs
At least two thirds of all ecosystems worldwide have been impacted and changed severely by human activity (MEA Millennium ecosystem assessment – ecosystems and human well-being: biodiversity synthesis. World R...
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The influence of crab burrows on sediment salinity in a Rhizophora-dominated mangrove forest in North Brazil during the dry season
Many ecological processes are influenced by salinity. Burrowing crabs, abundant fauna of mangrove forests around the world, can facilitate sediment water fluxes, which may decrease the salinity in mangrove sed...
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Chemical changes in detrital matter upon digestive processes in a sesarmid crab feeding on mangrove leaf litter
Pathways and rates of decomposition of detrital matter partly depend on its chemical composition. Digestive processes of detritivores drive changes in the chemical composition of detritus, and these changes tr...
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Extreme hydrothermal conditions at an active plate-bounding fault
Extreme temperatures and fluid pressures are measured, and their causes modelled, in a borehole into the Alpine Fault, where an earthquake rupture is expected within the next few decades.
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Effects of warming, nutrient enrichment and detritivore presence on litter breakdown and associated microbial decomposers in a simulated temperate woodland creek
Current scenarios of global environmental change predict rapid temperature increases, which can directly affect freshwater ecosystems. Leaf litter breakdown in aquatic environments constitutes a fundamental ec...
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Sex- and habitat-specific movement of an omnivorous semi-terrestrial crab controls habitat connectivity and subsidies: a multi-parameter approach
Distinct habitats are often linked through fluxes of matter and migration of organisms. In particular, intertidal ecotones are prone to being influenced from both the marine and the terrestrial realms, but whe...
