Gwenaël ABRIL

CNRS research director (Paris), Visiting professor, Universidade Federal Fluminense (Niterói, Brazil)

Principal Investigator, contributor to all WPs, regional coordinator for Brazil.

Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

Laboratoire de biologie des organismes et écosystèmes aquatiques

Universidade Federal Fluminense, Departamento de Geoquimíca Niterói

Keywords

Global carbon cycle

Carbon transport and storage

Work Packages

WP1 : Past, present and future GHG budgets of tropical estuaries

WP2 : Flux components of mangrove carbon budgets

WP3 : Origin, composition, remineralization and preservation of organic matter in mangrove soils

WP4 : Experimental study of priming effects in mangrove soils

Publications

Gwenaël Abril, Mélissa Narayaninsamy, Frank David, Raisa Chielle, Pierre Le Moal, Tarik Meziane 2025 - Carbon dioxide emissions from coastal waters and mangrove sediments in a microtidal bay under tropical monsoon climate (Martinique, Lesser Antilles) Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 322() 109355. DOI
Mathias Chynel, Gwenaël Abril, Mélissa Narayaninsamy, Loris Deirmendjian, Frédéric Guérin, Charlotte Dromard, Tarik Meziane 2024 - Sargassum beaching on mangrove sediments shifts microbial and crab metabolisms and enhances blue carbon storage Limnology and Oceanography, 69(12) 2941-2953. DOI