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Add coastal vegetation to the climate critical list

Nature volume 473, page 255 (2011)Cite this article

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Forests are protected, but carbon sinks in mangroves, seagrasses and marshes are ignored. Margareth da Silva Copertino wants Brazil to change that.

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Margareth da Silva Copertino is a lecturer in biological oceanography at theInstitute of Oceanography, Federal University of Rio Grande (FURG), Rio Grande, Brazil. e-mail: doccoper@furg.br

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da Silva Copertino, M. Add coastal vegetation to the climate critical list. Nature 473, 255 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/473255a

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