Few people appreciate that the nearby Olonne marshes form a veritable laboratory for blue carbon. Coastal salt marshes are ...
She notes that blue carbon, or carbon captured by oceans and ... The impact of the small invertebrates on salt marshes is visually dramatic and can be seen in satellite imagery.
Maine salt marshes are a key tool in the fight against climate change, acting as a buffer against storms and soaking up ...
This project focuses on the development of more reliable estimates of carbon storage in coastal wetland systems ... data to construct more accurate assessments of carbon storage in salt marsh and to ...
While a single plant is capable of fixing inorganic carbon dioxide (CO2) from the air, the entire ecosystem surrounding the ...
“Blue carbon” is the carbon stored in coastal and marine ecosystems. These ecosystems include everything from mangroves to seagrass beds and salt marshes. The World Bank's first-of-its-kind blue ...
Marine ecosystems, or blue carbon ecosystems, play important roles in supporting biodiversity and providing livelihoods. They ...
In 2009, a “Blue Carbon” report by the UN Environment Programme also said that mangroves, salt marshes and sea grasses captured up to 450 million tonnes of carbon a year. It urged far greater ...
Because of this, salt marshes are critical as places that store carbon, keeping it out of the ... My lab studies the blue crab, famous in the Chesapeake Bay, which generated over US$200 million ...
Dynamic tidal export of dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC) to the coastal ocean from highly productive intertidal marshes and its effects on seawater carbonate chemistry are thoroughly evaluated. The ...
Jones said scientists “have a pretty good idea of how much carbon marshes pull down,” but they don’t know exactly how much methane and other gases they release. A nearly 20-year-old blue ...