The land-to-ocean loops of the global carbon cycle

P Regnier, L Resplandy, RG Najjar, P Ciais - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Carbon storage by the ocean and by the land is usually quantified separately, and does not
fully take into account the land-to-ocean transport of carbon through inland waters …

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 …

Oceans and coastal ecosystems and their services

S Cooley, D Schoeman, L Bopp, P Boyd, S Donner… - 2023 - digital.csic.es
Ocean and coastal ecosystems support life on Earth and many aspects of human well-being.
Covering two-thirds of the planet, the ocean hosts vast biodiversity and modulates the global …

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 …

Coastal vegetation and estuaries are collectively a greenhouse gas sink

JA Rosentreter, GG Laruelle, HW Bange… - Nature Climate …, 2023 - nature.com
Coastal ecosystems release or absorb carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4) and nitrous
oxide (N2O), but the net effects of these ecosystems on the radiative balance remain …

[PDF][PDF] Agriculture, forestry and other land uses (AFOLU)

GJ Nabuurs, R Mrabet, AA Hatab… - Climate Change 2022 …, 2023 - library.wur.nl
Executive Summary The Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use1 (AFOLU) sector
encompasses managed ecosystems and offers significant mitigation opportunities while …

Constraints on the adjustment of tidal marshes to accelerating sea level rise

N Saintilan, KE Kovalenko, G Guntenspergen… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Much uncertainty exists about the vulnerability of valuable tidal marsh ecosystems to relative
sea level rise. Previous assessments of resilience to sea level rise, to which marshes can …

Seaweed: a potential climate change solution

WTL Yong, VY Thien, R Rupert… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2022 - Elsevier
Climate change and environmental deterioration have spurred a blue carbon economic
model in which fuel and food may be produced from marine ecosystems through the …

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 …

Mangrove forests under climate change in a 2 C world

DA Friess, MF Adame, JB Adams… - Wiley Interdisciplinary …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The world's nations are committed to keeping global temperature rises to less than 2° C to
avoid the worst impacts of climate change. Such a target is crucial for mangrove forests …