Recovering wetland biogeomorphic feedbacks to restore the world's biotic carbon hotspots

RJM Temmink, LPM Lamers, C Angelini, TJ Bouma… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Biogeomorphic wetlands cover 1% of Earth's surface but store 20% of ecosystem organic
carbon. This disproportional share is fueled by high carbon sequestration rates and effective …

Variable impacts of climate change on blue carbon

CE Lovelock, R Reef - One Earth, 2020 - cell.com
Blue carbon provides opportunities to mitigate climate change while increasing ecosystem
services for coastal communities, including climate change adaptation; however, blue …

Carbon removal using coastal blue carbon ecosystems is uncertain and unreliable, with questionable climatic cost-effectiveness

P Williamson, JP Gattuso - Frontiers in climate, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Mangrove forests, seagrass meadows and tidal saltmarshes are vegetated coastal
ecosystems that accumulate and store large quantities of carbon in their sediments. Many …

Geomorphic and ecological constraints on the coastal carbon sink

ML Kirwan, JP Megonigal, GL Noyce… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2023 - nature.com
Climate change is driving a fundamental reorganization of the coastal zone, in which carbon-
rich ecosystems are simultaneously migrating, accreting and submerging. In this Review, we …

Climate-driven tradeoffs between landscape connectivity and the maintenance of the coastal carbon sink

K Valentine, ER Herbert, DC Walters, Y Chen… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Ecosystem connectivity tends to increase the resilience and function of ecosystems
responding to stressors. Coastal ecosystems sequester disproportionately large amounts of …

Soil carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus stoichiometry and fractions in blue carbon ecosystems: implications for carbon accumulation in allochthonous-dominated …

Y Li, C Fu, J Hu, L Zeng, C Tu… - Environmental Science & …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Blue carbon ecosystems (BCEs) including mangroves, saltmarshes, and seagrasses are
highly efficient for organic carbon (OC) accumulation due to their unique ability to trap high …

Blue carbon benefits from global saltmarsh restoration

VG Mason, A Burden, G Epstein, LL Jupe… - Global Change …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Coastal saltmarshes are found globally, yet are 25%–50% reduced compared with their
historical cover. Restoration is incentivised by the promise that marshes are efficient storers …

Tidal flats as a significant carbon reservoir in global coastal ecosystems

ZL Chen, SY Lee - Frontiers in Marine Science, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Tidal flats are widely distributed and provide a variety of ecosystem services. Nevertheless,
the consequences of tidal flat loss and implications for services such as carbon (C) …

Beyond marsh drowning: The many faces of marsh loss (and gain)

G Mariotti - Advances in Water Resources, 2020 - Elsevier
The morphodynamics of tidal marshes is investigated using a novel model
(MarshMorpho2D) that couples 2D tidal dynamics, wave dynamics, mass-conserving …

Total ecosystem carbon stocks at the marine‐terrestrial interface: Blue carbon of the Pacific Northwest Coast, United States

JB Kauffman, L Giovanonni, J Kelly… - Global Change …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The coastal ecosystems of temperate North America provide a variety of ecosystem services
including high rates of carbon sequestration. Yet, little data exist for the carbon stocks of …