Wetland carbon storage controlled by millennial-scale variation in relative sea-level rise

Nature

Volumn 567, Issue 7746, 2019, Pages 91-95

  Rogers, Kerrylee ^a   Kelleway, Jeffrey J ^b   Saintilan, Neil ^b   Megonigal, J Patrick ^c   Adams, Janine B ^d   Holmquist, James R ^c   Lu, Meng ^c,e   Schile Beers, Lisa ^c   Zawadzki, Atun ^f   Mazumder, Debashish ^f   Woodroffe, Colin D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^b MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c SMITHSONIAN ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^d NELSON MANDELA METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^e YUNNAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^f AUSTRALIAN NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOACCUMULATION; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CARBON STORAGE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; GLOBAL CLIMATE; HOLOCENE; LETTER; ORGANIC MATTER PRODUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA LEVEL RISE; SEASHORE; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL CHEMISTRY; TIDAL VOLUME; WETLAND; CHEMISTRY; HISTORY; METABOLISM; SEA; SEDIMENT;

CARBON; SEA WATER;

CARBON; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; HISTORY, ANCIENT; OCEANS AND SEAS; SEAWATER; WETLANDS;

EID: 85062585818     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/s41586-019-0951-7     Document Type: Article

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