Assessing the risk of carbon dioxide emissions from blue carbon ecosystems

Catherine E. Lovelock; Trisha B. Atwood; Jeff Baldock; Carlos M. Duarte; Sharyn Hickey; Paul S. Lavery; Pere Masque; Peter I. Macreadie; Aurora M. Ricart; Oscar Serrano; Andy Steven

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Assessing the risk of carbon dioxide emissions from blue carbon ecosystems

Catherine E. Lovelock, Trisha B. Atwood, Jeff Baldock, Carlos M. Duarte, Sharyn Hickey, Paul S. Lavery, Pere Masque, Peter I. Macreadie, Aurora M. Ricart, Oscar Serrano, Andy Steven

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Abstract

"Blue carbon" ecosystems, which include tidal marshes, mangrove forests, and seagrass meadows, have large stocks of organic carbon (C) in their soils. These carbon stocks are vulnerable to decomposition and - if degraded - can be released to the atmosphere in the form of CO. We present a framework to help assess the relative risk of CO emissions from degraded soils, thereby supporting inclusion of soil C into blue carbon projects and establishing a means to prioritize management for their carbon values. Assessing the risk of CO emissions after various kinds of disturbances can be accomplished through knowledge of both the size of the soil C stock at a site and the likelihood that the soil C will decompose to CO.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	257-265
Number of pages	9
Journal	Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment
Volume	15
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/fee.1491
State	Published - May 15 2017

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Acknowledgements: Support was provided by the CSIRO Coastal Carbon Biogeochemistry Cluster. We also acknowledge the support of The Oceans Institute of the University of Western Australia, the Global Change Institute of The University of Queensland, and the Australian Research Council (awards DE130101084 and LP160100242).

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