Abstract
Australia has a long coastline and faces the Indian Ocean and the Pacific Ocean. This continent has a typical tropical and temperate regime along the coastline, which shelters varied blue carbon ecosystems. The coastal periphery shelters all three conventional blue carbon habitats like mangroves, seagrasses, and salt marshes. Australian Government took several initiatives to conserve and rehabilitate several blue carbon habitats, and they incorporated these crucial ecosystems within the framework of the national greenhouse gas inventory. The present chapter focused exclusively on the blue carbon habitats of Australia. The chapter collated the significant observations made so far by the researchers who worked on these three ecosystems. This chapter speaks about the spatial distribution and species diversity of the three ecosystems. However, the carbon content characterization holds the prime emphasis. We discussed the aboveground, belowground, and pedosphere carbon assimilation and some specialized observations from all the Australian blue carbon habitats. Overall, this chapter gives a brief overview of the state-of-the-art knowledge acquired on the blue carbon ecosystems of this continent.
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Akhand, A. (2022). Blue Carbon Dynamics of Australia. In: Chanda, A., Das, S., Ghosh, T. (eds) Blue Carbon Dynamics of the Indian Ocean. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-96558-7_8
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