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For Further InformationSeagrass covers just 0.1% of the seafloor but stores 11% of the ocean's buried organic carbon. See also Mangroves on Deforestation.
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Flowering plants that grow underwater in shallow seas, forming meadows that shelter animals and store carbon. Glossary meadows cover just 0.1 percent of the world's seafloor but store 11 percent of the organic carbon buried in the ocean, NOAA says. They are also nurseries: a single acre of seagrass can support almost 40,000 fish, and animal abundance in grassbeds is 10 to 100 times higher than over nearby sand.
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Source: NOAA Fisheries, Submerged aquatic vegetation
See also Mangroves.
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Seagrass covers just 0.1% of the world's seafloor but stores 11% of the organic carbon buried in the ocean.
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Saving Planets. (n.d.). Seagrass Meadows. https://www.savingplanets.com/Seagrass.html
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"Seagrass Meadows." Saving Planets, https://www.savingplanets.com/Seagrass.html.
