Prof in marine ecology @sos_bangor_uni. Ecosystem effects of fishing. Like sea kayaking in my #Klepper, wild camping, cycle touring, hanging out in my woodland
May 12, 2023 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
You may have noted that there is >2years between the submission and publication of our 'Matters Arising' paper. This has exposed the difficulties of publishing pieces criticising high profile papers in Nature. A🧵... rdcu.be/dbPz8
The original manuscript was reviewed, and one reviewer strongly agreed with us that the Sala et al. paper has some major flaws in the modelling of carbon dynamics.
May 10, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
We are concerned that Sala et al. overestimate trawl-induced CO2 release, because their model uses a reactivity estimated for highly reactive carbon delivered recently to the sediment surface, and apply it to bulk sediment which is known to have a much lower reactivity nature.com/articles/s4158…
May 10, 2023 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
Remember the claims that 'Bottom trawling releases as much carbon as global air travel'? It turns out that these simplistic estimates have overestimated CO2 release by two to three orders of magnitude nature.com/articles/s4158…
Today we publish a paper showing that Sala et al. massively overestimate the reactivity of buried carbon. nature.com/articles/s4158…