Fig. 6: Variation of sediment organic carbon stocks with historical vegetation persistence. | Communications Earth & Environment

Fig. 6: Variation of sediment organic carbon stocks with historical vegetation persistence.

From: Continual migration of patches within a Massachusetts seagrass meadow limits carbon accretion and storage

Fig. 6

Sediment organic carbon stocks in the top 27 g cm−2 of sediment cores versus (a) \({N}_{{{{\rm{last}}}}10}\), the number of times the corresponding station was vegetated within the past 10 years (images), and (b) \({N}_{{{{\rm{lastcons}}}}}\), the number of years the corresponding station was vegetated in consecutive images stepping back from 2022 in year intervals, both calculated as averages over 3-m diameter circles centered at the station GPS locations. Standard errors in \({N}_{{{{\rm{last}}}}10}\) and \({N}_{{{{\rm{lastcons}}}}}\) are smaller than the symbol sizes.

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