| Session Details | |
| Section | OS - Ocean Sciences BG - Biogeosciences |
| Session Title | Carbon Sequestration in Marginal Seas: Regulation and Response to Global Change |
| Main Convener | Prof. Bangqin Huang (Xiamen University, China) |
| Co-convener(s) | Prof. Guangxing Liu (Ocean University of China, China) Prof. Chin-Chang Hung (National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan) |
| Session Description | Ocean plays a critical role in regulating the global carbon cycle, and affecting the climate system, because it is one of the largest reservoirs of carbon dioxide on the Earth. Ocean absorbs and sequesters carbon dioxide through two pathways: biological pump and microbial carbon pump. Studies have shown that global change has been exerting significant influences on the marine organisms and modifying the ecosystem structure; and affects efficiencies of both biological pump and microbial carbon pump. Thus, both these vital biogeochemical processes are reported to be adversely affected. While extensive and many well conceived studies are needed, this session aims to bring together some well known global colleagues to discuss and promulgate essential insights into the mechanisms regulating carbon sequestration in the marginal seas in particular as more than half of carbon is buried there. In this session, we invite and welcome contributions from global experts to report their ideas and studies concerning all aspects of carbon sequestration in marginal seas including but not limited to the following aspects: (1) biological carbon pump; (2) microbial carbon pump; (3) molecular mechanisms regulating carbon sequestration efficiency as revealed by studies of marine genomics, transcriptomics and proteomics; (4) effect of ocean acidification on carbon fixation and sequestration, and (5) coral reef dynamics relating to global change. |