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Contents
1 Blue Carbon: Characteristics of the Ocean’s Sequestration
and Storage Ability of Carbon Dioxide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Masakazu Hori, Christopher J. Bayne, and Tomohiro Kuwae
2 Carbon Sequestration in Sediment as an Ecosystem Function
of Seagrass Meadows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Toshihiro Miyajima and Masami Hamaguchi
3 Carbon Sequestration in Mangroves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Tomomi Inoue
4 Carbon Sequestration by Seagrass and Macroalgae in Japan:
Estimates and Future Needs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
Goro Yoshida, Masakazu Hori, Hiromori Shimabukuro, Hideki
Hamaoka, Toshihiro Onitsuka, Natsuki Hasegawa, Daisuke
Muraoka, Kousuke Yatsuya, Kentaro Watanabe, and Masahiro
Nakaoka
5 Carbon Storage in Tidal Flats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
Toru Endo and Sosuke Otani
6 Air–Water CO 2 Flux in Shallow Coastal Waters: Theory,
Methods, and Empirical Studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
Tatsuki Tokoro, Kenta Watanabe, Kazufumi Tada,
and Tomohiro Kuwae
7 CO 2 Fluxes in Mangrove Ecosystems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
Anirban Akhand, Abhra Chanda, Sourav Das, Sugata Hazra,
and Tomohiro Kuwae
8 CO 2 Flux in Tidal Flats and Salt Marshes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223
Sosuke Otani and Toru Endo