Blue carbon as a natural climate solution

PI Macreadie, MDP Costa, TB Atwood… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2021 - nature.com
Blue carbon ecosystems (BCEs), including mangrove forests, seagrass meadows and tidal
marshes, store carbon and provide co-benefits such as coastal protection and fisheries …

Tackling the mangrove restoration challenge

CE Lovelock, E Barbier, CM Duarte - PLoS biology, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Mangroves have been converted and degraded for decades. Rates of loss have declined
over the past decades, but achieving resilient coastlines requires both conservation and …

A meta-analysis of the ecological and economic outcomes of mangrove restoration

J Su, DA Friess, A Gasparatos - Nature communications, 2021 - nature.com
Mangrove restoration has become a popular strategy to ensure the critical functions and
economic benefits of this ecosystem. This study conducts a meta-analysis of the peer …

Restoration of seagrass habitat leads to rapid recovery of coastal ecosystem services

RJ Orth, JS Lefcheck, KS McGlathery, L Aoki… - Science …, 2020 - science.org
There have been increasing attempts to reverse habitat degradation through active
restoration, but few large-scale successes are reported to guide these efforts. Here, we …

Global kelp forest restoration: past lessons, present status, and future directions

AM Eger, EM Marzinelli, H Christie… - Biological …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Kelp forest ecosystems and their associated ecosystem services are declining around the
world. In response, marine managers are working to restore and counteract these declines …

Photocatalysis and perovskite oxide-based materials: a remedy for a clean and sustainable future

M Irshad, Q tul Ain, M Zaman, MZ Aslam, N Kousar… - RSC …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
The massive use of non-renewable energy resources by humankind to fulfill their energy
demands is causing severe environmental issues. Photocatalysis is considered one of the …

Bright spots in coastal marine ecosystem restoration

MI Saunders, C Doropoulos, E Bayraktarov… - Current Biology, 2020 - cell.com
Summary The United Nations General Assembly calls for ecosystem restoration to be a
primary intervention strategy used to counter the continued loss of natural habitats …

Achieving the Kunming–Montreal global biodiversity targets for blue carbon ecosystems

C Fu, A Steckbauer, H Mann, CM Duarte - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2024 - nature.com
Abstract The Kunming–Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (KM-GBF) provides a major
impetus for the restoration and conservation of blue carbon ecosystems to address the …

Loss of coastal ecosystem spatial connectivity and services by urbanization: Natural-to-urban integration for bay management

MA Aguilera, J Tapia, C Gallardo, P Núñez… - Journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Urbanization has negative consequences for the integrity of ecosystems and services they
provide, by reducing their extent and quality in both aquatic and terrestrial environments …

Capitalizing on the global financial interest in blue carbon

DA Friess, J Howard, M Huxham, PI Macreadie… - PLoS …, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Natural climate solutions are crucial interventions to help countries and companies achieve
their net-zero carbon emissions ambitions. Blue carbon ecosystems such as mangroves …