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 …

[HTML][HTML] A review of spectral indices for mangrove remote sensing

TV Tran, R Reef, X Zhu - Remote Sensing, 2022 - mdpi.com
Mangrove ecosystems provide critical goods and ecosystem services to coastal
communities and contribute to climate change mitigation. Over four decades, remote …

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 …

Agriculture, forestry and other land uses (chapter 7)

GJ Nabuurs, R Mrabet, A Abu Hatab, M Bustamante… - 2022 - pure.iiasa.ac.at
The Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use (AFOLU) sector encompasses managed
ecosystems and offers significant mitigation opportunities while delivering food, wood and …

Contributions of mangrove conservation and restoration to climate change mitigation in Indonesia

VB Arifanti, JB Kauffman, Subarno… - Global Change …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Mangrove forests are important carbon sinks, and this is especially true for Indonesia where
about 24% of the world's mangroves exist. Unfortunately, vast expanses of these mangroves …

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 …

Geomorphic and ecological constraints on the coastal carbon sink

ML Kirwan, JP Megonigal, GL Noyce… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2023 - nature.com
Climate change is driving a fundamental reorganization of the coastal zone, in which carbon-
rich ecosystems are simultaneously migrating, accreting and submerging. In this Review, we …

Future carbon emissions from global mangrove forest loss

MF Adame, RM Connolly, MP Turschwell… - Global change …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Mangroves have among the highest carbon densities of any tropical forest. These 'blue
carbon'ecosystems can store large amounts of carbon for long periods, and their protection …

Co-benefits of protecting mangroves for biodiversity conservation and carbon storage

MM Rahman, M Zimmer, I Ahmed, D Donato… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The conservation of ecosystems and their biodiversity has numerous co-benefits, both for
local societies and for humankind worldwide. While the co-benefit of climate change …

Four decades of data indicate that planted mangroves stored up to 75% of the carbon stocks found in intact mature stands

CF Bourgeois, RA MacKenzie, S Sharma… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
Mangroves' ability to store carbon (C) has long been recognized, but little is known about
whether planted mangroves can store C as efficiently as naturally established (ie, intact) …