Impacts of land reclamation on tidal marsh ‘blue carbon’ stocks

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 672, Issue , 2019, Pages 427-437

  Ewers Lewis, Carolyn J ^a   Baldock, Jeffrey A ^b   Hawke, Bruce ^b   Gadd, Patricia S ^c   Zawadzki, Atun ^c   Heijnis, Henk ^c   Jacobsen, Geraldine E ^c   Rogers, Kerrylee ^d   Macreadie, Peter I ^a  

^a DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c AUSTRALIAN NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

Author keywords

Blue carbon; Carbon sequestration; Carbon stocks; Emissions; Land reclamation; Sediment carbon; Tidal marsh

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTRY; GAS EMISSIONS; GREENHOUSE GASES; LAND RECLAMATION; LAND USE; ORGANIC CARBON; PARTICULATE EMISSIONS; SEDIMENTS; WETLANDS;

CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CARBON STOCKS; COARSE PARTICULATES; ECOSYSTEM SERVICES; RADIOCARBON DATING; SEDIMENT ACCUMULATION; SOUTHEAST AUSTRALIA; TIDAL MARSHES;

RECLAMATION;

ALKYL GROUP; LEAD 210; ORGANIC CARBON; ORGANIC MATTER;

CARBON EMISSION; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CARBON SINK; FRESHWATER SEDIMENT; LAND RECLAMATION; MAGNITUDE; MARSH;

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CARBON STORAGE; DECOMPOSITION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL RECLAMATION; MAGNITUDE ESTIMATION METHOD; MARSH; PARTICULATE MATTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOMETRIC DATING; SEDIMENT; X RAY FLUORESCENCE SPECTROMETRY;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 85063907432     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.03.345     Document Type: Article

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