Publications by authors named "W Kiswara"
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- Seagrasses serve as vital carbon sinks in Southeast Asia, significantly contributing to climate change mitigation but lacking comprehensive national inventories and nature-based solutions.
- The study estimates national coastal blue carbon stocks in seagrass ecosystems across the region, revealing an average carbon storage of 121.95 Mg ha and a total carbon stock of 429.11 Tg, predominantly found in the Philippines.
- Despite their potential to offset CO emissions and economic value, current policies overlook blue carbon ecosystems in climate mitigation efforts, highlighting a need for greater recognition and integration of seagrass meadows in national and international frameworks.
Seagrass longevity up to 47 years in well-restored, well-sited seagrass restorations are demonstrated from 253 trials at 83 regional sites in tropical and subtropical portions of three oceans (Atlantic, Pacific, Indian Oceans). These trials include over 3.04 million planted units into 306.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFClimate Change solutions include CO extraction from atmosphere and water with burial by living habitats in sediment/soil. Nowhere on the planet are blue carbon plants which carry out massive carbon extraction and permanent burial more intensely concentrated than in SE Asia. For the first time we make a national and total inventory of data to date for "blue carbon" buried from mangroves and seagrass and delineate the constraints.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMarine protected areas (MPAs) are key tools for combatting the global overexploitation of endangered species. The prevailing paradigm is that MPAs are beneficial in helping to restore ecosystems to more 'natural' conditions. However, MPAs may have unintended negative effects when increasing densities of protected species exert destructive effects on their habitat.
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