Seagrass Ecosystem Carbon Stock In The Small Islands: Case Study In Spermonde Island, South Sulawesi, Indonesia
Abstract: Small islands are
particularly rich with coral reefs and seagrass ecosystems and coastal plants.
Seagrass is one of the coastal ecosystems of blue carbon, which is capable of
storing utilize and store CO2 in the form of organic carbon in biomass and sediment.
The purpose of this study to get the carbon stock of seagrass and its role in
climate change. The survey method with sampling purposive sampling representing
all research sites and analyzed the amount of carbon contained in biomass and
sediment. The result showed that there were eight species of seagrass found,
and the highest carbon stock on the type
Enhalus acoroides at Kapoposang island
was 1.64 MgC / ha. The average value of the total biomass of carbon stock in
the island's largest seagrass Bauluang island
was 1.89 ± 0.92 Mg C / ha with the largest at the ground below 77% of
total carbon biomass. Carbon stock in sediments of seagrass ecosystems average
of 531.87 ± 74.08 Mg C / ha up to a depth of 50 cm. The role of seagrass in
Spermonde archipelago waters in climate change in both the biomass and sediment
for MgC 533.25 MgC/ ha is equivalent to the use of CO2 for 1955.26 MgCO2e / ha.
Keywords: Seagrass, Spermonde
Islands, blue carbon, mitigation
Penulis: Agustin Rustam, Nasir
Sudirman, Restu Nur Afi Ati, Hadiwijaya Lesmana Salim, Yusmiana Puspitaningsih
Rahayu
Kode Jurnal: jpperikanandd170322
