What happens to soil organic carbon as coastal marsh ecosystems change in response to increasing salinity? An exploration using ramped pyrolysis

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

Volumn 16, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 2322-2335

  Williams, Elizabeth K ^a,b   Rosenheim, Brad E ^c  

^a Tulane University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

coastal wetlands; pyrolysis; sea level rise; soil organic carbon; stability

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL STABILITY; CLIMATE MODELS; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEMS; ORGANIC CARBON; PYROLYSIS; SEA LEVEL; SOILS; STABILITY;

CHEMICAL COMPOSITIONS; COASTAL WETLANDS; DECOMPOSITION CHARACTERISTICS; PRESERVATION POTENTIAL; SALINITY GRADIENTS; SEA LEVEL RISE; SOIL ORGANIC CARBON; THERMO-CHEMICAL STABILITY;

WETLANDS;

BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; COASTAL WETLAND; DECOMPOSITION; ECOSYSTEM RESPONSE; MARSH; ORGANIC CARBON; OXIDATION; PYROLYSIS; SALINITY; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER;

LOUISIANA; MISSISSIPPI DELTA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84939571985     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15252027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2015GC005839     Document Type: Article

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