Tainá Luchese Gaspar
The threat of climate change poses the absorption and storage of CO2 by marine
ecosystems as a possible natural solution to reduce the increase in atmospheric
CO2. However, the contribution of rhodolith beds, benthic carbonate biofactories
formed by globally distributing calcareous algal nodules, to carbon sequestration
has not yet been considered.
In Brazil, the rhodolith beds represent repositories of
biodiversity and nature's contributions to people, but are threatened by the incentive
to offshore exploration of oil, gas and minerals. The present proposal aims to
characterize Fernando de Noronha rhodolith-bed to quantify their carbon
sequestration potential.