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) …

A review of sediment diversion in the Mississippi River Deltaic Plain

K Xu, SJ Bentley, JW Day, AM Freeman - Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf …, 2019 - Elsevier
One of the proposed methods for restoring the disappearing Mississippi Delta is sediment
diversion which uses channels and structures to divert water and sediment from the …

Vulnerability of Louisiana's coastal wetlands to present-day rates of relative sea-level rise

KL Jankowski, TE Törnqvist, AM Fernandes - Nature Communications, 2017 - nature.com
Coastal Louisiana has lost about 5,000 km2 of wetlands over the past century and concern
exists whether remaining wetlands will persist while facing some of the world's highest rates …

Co-evolution of wetland landscapes, flooding, and human settlement in the Mississippi River Delta Plain

RR Twilley, SJ Bentley, Q Chen, DA Edmonds… - Sustainability …, 2016 - Springer
River deltas all over the world are sinking beneath sea-level rise, causing significant threats
to natural and social systems. This is due to the combined effects of anthropogenic changes …

[HTML][HTML] Land loss in the Mississippi River Delta: Role of subsidence, global sea-level rise, and coupled atmospheric and oceanographic processes

M Blum, D Rahn, B Frederick, S Polanco - Global and Planetary Change, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract The Mississippi River Delta in coastal Louisiana has suffered large-scale land loss
during the historic period and is representative of a global phenomenon where low …

Spatial variation of organic carbon storage and aggregate sizes in the sediment of the Zhangjiang mangrove ecosystem

R Yan, J Feng, T Fu, Q Chen, Z Wang, F Kang, J Fang… - Catena, 2024 - Elsevier
Sediment organic carbon (SOC) in mangrove ecosystem, known as blue carbon, is a crucial
component in estuarine carbon cycles. To get a deep insight into the mechanism of SOC …

Marsh edge erosion and associated carbon dynamics in coastal Louisiana: A proxy for future wetland-dominated coastlines world-wide

Y Sapkota, JR White - Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 2019 - Elsevier
Coastal wetland loss through marsh edge erosion is a serious problem in Louisiana. The
majority of studies on coastal land loss use aerial and satellite photographic analysis while …

Drivers and impacts of water level fluctuations in the Mississippi River delta: Implications for delta restoration

M Hiatt, G Snedden, JW Day, RV Rohli… - Estuarine, Coastal and …, 2019 - Elsevier
This review synthesizes the knowledge regarding the environmental forces affecting water
level variability in the coastal waters of the Mississippi River delta and relates these …

The carbon stock and sequestration rate in tidal flats from coastal China

J Chen, D Wang, Y Li, Z Yu, S Chen… - Global …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Tidal flats form around the estuarine and coastal zone by continuous terrigenous sediment
transport and deposition processes. Now a large body of published carbon research work …

Long-term fate of rapidly eroding carbon stock soil profiles in coastal wetlands

Y Sapkota, JR White - Science of the Total Environment, 2021 - Elsevier
Marsh edge erosion is one of the major causes of land and associated carbon loss in
wetland-dominated coastlines. Assessing carbon stocks and understanding fate of eroding …