Enhanced decomposition offsets enhanced productivity and soil carbon accumulation in coastal wetlands responding to climate change

Coastal wetlands are responsible for about half of all carbon burial in oceans, and their persistence as a valuable ecosystem depends largely on the ability to accumulate organic material at rates equivalent to relative sea level rise. Recent work suggests that elevated CO<sub>2&lt...

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Main Authors: M. L. Kirwan, L. K. Blum
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Copernicus Publications 2011-04-01
Series:Biogeosciences
Online Access:http://www.biogeosciences.net/8/987/2011/bg-8-987-2011.pdf