Chemical Oceanography Reviews

A special issue of Journal of Marine Science and Engineering (ISSN 2077-1312). This special issue belongs to the section "Chemical Oceanography".

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Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue of Journal of Marine Science and Engineering (JMSE) aims to provide an open access forum for peer-reviewed review papers on current and emerging issues of interest in the field of chemical oceanography. Emphasis for this Topical Collection will be placed on scholarly research that advances our knowledge and understanding of marine chemical processes, including acidification, biogeochemical and geochemical cycles, carbonate chemistry, chemistry of organic compounds, and organic and inorganic contaminants. We invite researchers and their colleagues to contribute review papers on the state of knowledge, new developments as well as recommendations for future research in aspects of marine chemistry, including impacts of climate change and increasing pollution problems in the global ocean.

Manuscripts submitted to JMSE should neither be published previously nor be under consideration for publication in another journal. JMSE has no restrictions on the length of manuscripts, provided that the text is concise and comprehensive. The quality and impact of submissions will be evaluated in a peer review process.

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Dr. Daniel M. Alongi
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Keywords

  • acidification
  • biogeochemistry
  • carbonate chemistry
  • geochemistry
  • contaminants
  • organic chemistry
  • inorganic chemistry
  • marine chemical processes

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Lateral Export and Sources of Subsurface Dissolved Carbon and Alkalinity in Mangroves: Revising the Blue Carbon Budget
by Daniel M. Alongi
J. Mar. Sci. Eng. 2022, 10(12), 1916; https://doi.org/10.3390/jmse10121916 - 6 Dec 2022
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Abstract
Mangroves are carbon-rich ecosystems that store large quantities of carbon, mostly in soils. Early carbon (C) budgets indicated that >50% of mangrove C fixation was unaccounted for. This ‘missing C’ has now been discovered to be a large release (423 Tg C a [...] Read more.
Mangroves are carbon-rich ecosystems that store large quantities of carbon, mostly in soils. Early carbon (C) budgets indicated that >50% of mangrove C fixation was unaccounted for. This ‘missing C’ has now been discovered to be a large release (423 Tg C a−1) of porewater dissolved DIC (dissolved inorganic carbon), dissolved organic carbon (DOC), and total alkalinity (17 TMOL a−1) via lateral export derived from bacterial decomposition of soil organic matter. This large export originates from DIC produced over at least a 1.0–1.5 m soil profile (280–420 Tg C a−1) via decomposition of autochthonous and allochthonous inputs and/or likely mineralization in deep (≥1 m) ancient soils. DOC and DIC export from mangroves equate to 41% and ≈100% of export from the world’s tropical rivers, respectively. A newly revised blue carbon budget for the world’s mangroves indicates a mean ecosystem gross primary production (GPPE) to ecosystem respiration (RE) ratio of 1.35 and a net ecosystem production (NEP) of 794 g C m−2 a−1 (= global NEP of 117 Tg C a−1), reflecting net autotrophy. CORG burial is 5% and 9% of GPPE and NEPE, respectively. Mean RE/GPPE is 0.74 and carbon use efficiency averages 0.57, higher than for tropical humid forests (0.35). Full article
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Chemical Oceanography Reviews)
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