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| Title | Exploring the potential of animating carbon cycle to enhance blue carbon capacity in seagrasses of Indonesia: A review and perspective |
| Group | Aquatic Ecology and Water Quality Management Group |
| Project type | thesis |
| Credits | 24-36 |
| Supervisor(s) | Susi Rahmawati; Marjolijn Christianen |
| Examiner(s) | Marjolijn Christianen |
| Contact info | Mischa Streekstra: marine.aew@wur.nl |
| Begin date | 2024/09/01 |
| End date | 2026/09/01 |
| Description | Indonesia, as one of the world's hot spots for biodiversity and with an extensive area of seagrass, has valuable potential as a blue-carbon ecosystem to mitigate climate change. Yet, robust information is still required to meet a global requirement in the climate mitigation scheme. Likewise, it is crucial to highlight a strategy for enhancing carbon storage and persistence in seagrass ecosystems, such as including the role of herbivores such as sea turtles.
This desktop research project aims to, 1. Assess the capacity of Indonesia's seagrass ecosystem as a blue carbon ecosystem by reviewing published literature (including grey literature an literature in Bahasa Indonesia). 2. Evaluate the existence and role of marine megaherbivores in Indonesia by reviewing published literature. By the end of the project, we hope to have spatial data and a map on carbon stock and sequestration and marine megaherbivores role and distribution in seagrass ecosystems across Indonesian waters. |
| Used skills | Literature reveiw; data analysis/statistics; remote sensing |
| Requirements | knowledge on ecology, coastal ecosystem (particularly seagrass), basic carbon cycle, master in Bahasa Indonesia ( 1 student) |