About the Authors

Peter I. Macreadie

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft

peter.macreadie@rmit.edu.au (PIM); hsy@knu.ac.kr (H-SY)

Affiliation Centre for Nature Positive Solutions, Biosciences and Food Technology Discipline, School of Science, RMIT University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Finnley W. R. Ross

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Deakin University, Burwood Campus, Burwood, Victoria, Australia

Carlos M. Duarte

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Marine Science Program, Division of Biological and Environmental Sciences and Engineering, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia

Ji Won Hong

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Integrated Blue Carbon Research Center, Advanced Bio-Resource Research Center, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Korea, Department of Biology, College of Natural Sciences, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Korea

Ho-Sung Yoon

Roles Writing – original draft

peter.macreadie@rmit.edu.au (PIM); hsy@knu.ac.kr (H-SY)

Affiliations Integrated Blue Carbon Research Center, Advanced Bio-Resource Research Center, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Korea, Department of Biology, College of Natural Sciences, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Korea, School of Life Sciences, FOUR KNU Creative BioResearch Group, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Korea

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.