Fig. 4: Distribution of annual carbon emissions (CO2 equivalents) only from seagrass biomass linked to habitat loss per country.
From: Global estimates of seagrass blue carbon stocks in biomass and net primary production
a Global map annual emissions (CO2 equivalents) from seagrass biomass and seagrass habitat loss per country. Countries represented with stripes have low-confidence extent estimates7. Gray represents countries with no data, and white represents countries where seagrass is absent. Legends represent equal quantiles. b Scatter plot illustrating the relationship between seagrass extent and seagrass biomass annual carbon emissions. The x- and y-axes were 4th-root transformed for improved visualization of differences among countries. c Bar plot showing seagrass biomass annual carbon emissions per bioregion. Basemap outlines were obtained from Opendatasoft (https://public.opendatasoft.com/) under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
