Overcoming the coupled climate and biodiversity crises and their societal impacts

HO Pörtner, RJ Scholes, A Arneth, DKA Barnes… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Earth's biodiversity and human societies face pollution, overconsumption of natural
resources, urbanization, demographic shifts, social and economic inequalities, and habitat …

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 …

Global mangrove extent change 1996–2020: Global mangrove watch version 3.0

P Bunting, A Rosenqvist, L Hilarides, RM Lucas… - Remote Sensing, 2022 - mdpi.com
Mangroves are a globally important ecosystem that provides a wide range of ecosystem
system services, such as carbon capture and storage, coastal protection and fisheries …

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 …

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 …

Global hotspots of salt marsh change and carbon emissions

AD Campbell, L Fatoyinbo, L Goldberg, D Lagomasino - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Salt marshes provide ecosystem services such as carbon sequestration, coastal protection,
sea-level-rise (SLR) adaptation and recreation. SLR, storm events, drainage and mangrove …

Climate change challenges, plant science solutions

NA Eckardt, EA Ainsworth, RN Bahuguna… - The Plant …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Climate change is a defining challenge of the 21st century, and this decade is a critical time
for action to mitigate the worst effects on human populations and ecosystems. Plant science …

Carbon sequestration and climate change mitigation using macroalgae: a state of knowledge review

A Pessarrodona, RM Franco‐Santos… - Biological …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The conservation, restoration, and improved management of terrestrial forests significantly
contributes to mitigate climate change and its impacts, as well as providing numerous co …

Mangrove reforestation provides greater blue carbon benefit than afforestation for mitigating global climate change

S Song, Y Ding, W Li, Y Meng, J Zhou, R Gou… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Significant efforts have been invested to restore mangrove forests worldwide through
reforestation and afforestation. However, blue carbon benefit has not been compared …

[HTML][HTML] Climate change: Strategies for mitigation and adaptation

F Wang, JD Harindintwali, K Wei, Y Shan… - The Innovation …, 2023 - the-innovation.org
The sustainability of life on Earth is under increasing threat due to human-induced climate
change. This perilous change in the Earth's climate is caused by increases in carbon dioxide …