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Tidal wetland resilience to sea level rise increases their carbon sequestration capacity in United States
Nature Communications, Vol.10(1), pp.1-11
28/11/2019
PMCID: PMC6883032
PMID: 31780651
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Abstract
Coastal wetlands are large reservoirs of soil carbon (C). However, the annual C accumulation rates contributing to the C storage in these systems have yet to be spatially estimated on a large scale. We synthesized C accumulation rate (CAR) in tidal wetlands of the conterminous United States (US), upscaled the CAR to national scale, and predicted trends based on climate change scenarios. Here, we show that the mean CAR is 161.8 ± 6 g Cm−2 yr−1, and the conterminous US tidal wetlands sequestrate 4.2–5.0 Tg C yr−1. Relative sea level rise (RSLR) largely regulates the CAR. The tidal wetland CAR is projected to increase in this century and continue their C sequestration capacity in all climate change scenarios, suggesting a strong resilience to sea level rise. These results serve as a baseline assessment of C accumulation in tidal wetlands of US, and indicate a significant C sink throughout this century.
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- Title
- Tidal wetland resilience to sea level rise increases their carbon sequestration capacity in United States
- Creators
- Faming Wang (Author) - Chinese Academy of SciencesXiaoliang Lu - Institute of Soil and Water ConservationChristian J Sanders - East China Normal UniversityJianwu Tang - East China Normal University
- Publication Details
- Nature Communications, Vol.10(1), pp.1-11
- Publisher
- Nature Publishing Group; London
- Grant note
- This study was partially funded by Natural Science Foundation of China (31300419, 31670621, 31870463), the Key Special Project for Introduced Talents Team of Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Guangzhou) (GML2019ZD0408), R&D Program of Guangdong Provincial Department of Science and Technology (2018B030324003) and Pearl River Nova Program of Guangzhou (201710010140) awarded to F.W. J.T. is supported by the NOAA National Estuarine Research Reserve Science Collaborative (NA09NOS4190153 and NA14NOS4190145). C.J.S. is supported by Australian Research Council (DE160100443).
- Identifiers
- 991012925039702368
- Copyright
- © The Author(s) 2019 Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
- Academic Unit
- Faculty of Science and Engineering; School of Environment, Science and Engineering; National Marine Science Centre; National Centre for Flood Research
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article