Ceri Lewis, associate professor in marine biology at the University of Exeter who works on another blue carbon project called the Convex Seascape Survey, said that most leading climate reports barely mention seafloor mud: “This needs to change,” she said. “The more we learn about the importance of mud as a natural sink for organic carbon, the more reason we have to start protecting it from disturbances such as bottom trawling.”
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