Census estimates of algal and epiphytic carbonate production highlight tropical seagrass meadows as sediment production hotspots by Perry, Chris T., Salter, Michael A., Morgan, Kyle M., Harborne, Alastair R.

“…Using novel census methodologies, based primarily on measures of plant biovolumes and carbonate content, we assessed habitat-scale production by two ubiquitous biogenic CaCO3 sediment producers, calcareous green algae and seagrass epiphytes, across southern Eleuthera Bank, Bahamas (area ∼140 km2). Data from species-specific plant disaggregation experiments and from X-ray diffraction (XRD) analysis of calcified plants also allowed us to resolve questions about the size fractions and mineralogies of the carbonates produced. …”
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