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 …

Submarine groundwater discharge impacts on coastal nutrient biogeochemistry

IR Santos, X Chen, AL Lecher, AH Sawyer… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2021 - nature.com
Submarine groundwater discharge (SGD) links terrestrial and marine systems, but has often
been overlooked in coastal nutrient budgets because it is difficult to quantify. In this Review …

Changing ocean, marine ecosystems, and dependent communities

NL Bindoff, WWL Cheung, JG Kairo, J Arístegui… - 2019 - ri.conicet.gov.ar
The ocean is a key component of the Earth system (Chapter 1) as it provides essential life
supporting services (Inniss et al. 2017). For example, it stores heat trapped in the …

Global blue carbon accumulation in tidal wetlands increases with climate change

F Wang, CJ Sanders, IR Santos, J Tang… - National Science …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Coastal tidal wetlands produce and accumulate significant amounts of organic carbon (C)
that help to mitigate climate change. However, previous data limitations have prevented a …

Surface water and groundwater interactions in salt marshes and their impact on plant ecology and coastal biogeochemistry

P Xin, A Wilson, C Shen, Z Ge, KB Moffett… - Reviews of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Salt marshes are highly productive intertidal wetlands providing important ecological
services for maintaining coastal biodiversity, buffering against oceanic storms, and acting as …

The renaissance of Odum's outwelling hypothesis in'Blue Carbon'science

IR Santos, DJ Burdige, TC Jennerjahn… - Estuarine, Coastal and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract The term 'Blue Carbon'was coined about a decade ago to highlight the important
carbon sequestration capacity of coastal vegetated ecosystems. The term has paved the …

Carbon balance in salt marsh and mangrove ecosystems: A global synthesis

DM Alongi - Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 2020 - mdpi.com
Mangroves and salt marshes are among the most productive ecosystems in the global
coastal ocean. Mangroves store more carbon (739 Mg CORG ha− 1) than salt marshes (334 …

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 …

Carbonate chemistry and carbon sequestration driven by inorganic carbon outwelling from mangroves and saltmarshes

GMS Reithmaier, A Cabral, A Akhand… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Mangroves and saltmarshes are biogeochemical hotspots storing carbon in sediments and
in the ocean following lateral carbon export (outwelling). Coastal seawater pH is modified by …

Submarine groundwater discharge: updates on its measurement techniques, geophysical drivers, magnitudes, and effects

M Taniguchi, H Dulai, KM Burnett, IR Santos… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
The number of studies concerning Submarine Groundwater Discharge (SGD) grew quickly
as we entered the twenty-first century. Many hydrological and oceanographic processes that …