[HTML][HTML] Fjords as aquatic critical zones (ACZs)

TS Bianchi, S Arndt, WEN Austin, DI Benn… - Earth-Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
In recent decades, the land-ocean aquatic continuum, commonly defined as the interface, or
transition zone, between terrestrial ecosystems and the open ocean, has undergone …

[HTML][HTML] Sediment organic carbon dynamics response to land use change in diverse watershed anthropogenic activities

T Xiao, F Ran, Z Li, S Wang, X Nie, Y Liu, C Yang… - Environment …, 2023 - Elsevier
Sediment organic carbon (SOC) is a precious archive that synthesizes anthropogenic
processes that remove geochemical fluxes from watersheds. However, the scarcity of …

[HTML][HTML] Carbon accumulation and storage across contrasting saltmarshes of Scotland

LC Miller, C Smeaton, H Yang, WEN Austin - Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf …, 2023 - Elsevier
Saltmarshes are acknowledged to be “carbon hotspots” due to their capacity to trap and
store large quantities of carbon (C) within their soils and potentially have the ability to …

Advancing an integrated understanding of land–ocean connections in shaping the marine ecosystems of coastal temperate rainforest ecoregions

BPV Hunt, S Alin, A Bidlack… - Limnology and …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Land and ocean ecosystems are strongly connected and mutually interactive. As climate
changes and other anthropogenic stressors intensify, the complex pathways that link these …

Carbon burial in the mid-latitude fjords of Scotland

C Smeaton, H Yang, WEN Austin - Marine Geology, 2021 - Elsevier
Fjord sediments are recognized global hotspots for the burial of organic carbon (OC) and as
an integral part of the global carbon (C) cycle. Relative to their spatial extent, more OC is …

Carbon sequestration of the middle Miocene Sunda Shelf facilitated global climate change

P Ma, Z Liu, M Jiang, H Cheng… - Geophysical Research …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Long‐term organic carbon (OC) burial on continental shelves has been widely recognized
for regulating atmospheric CO2 (pCO2) and the global climate. However, quantitatively …

Erosion of modern terrestrial organic matter as a major component of sediments in fjords

X Cui, TS Bianchi, C Savage - Geophysical Research Letters, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Fjords have recently been recognized as “hot spots” of carbon burial. In this study, we
investigated organic carbon (OC) and biomarker radiocarbon values in fjord sediments from …

Fate of organic carbon burial in modern sediment within Yangtze River Estuary

X Sun, D Fan, H Liao, Y Tian - Journal of Geophysical …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Large river‐dominated margins play a potential key role in regulating global carbon cycle
and budget due to high terrestrial organic carbon (Corg) inputs and sediment accumulation …

Distribution and origin of inorganic and organic carbon in the sediments of Kongsfjorden, Northwest Spitsbergen, European Arctic

K Koziorowska, K Kuliński, J Pempkowiak - Continental Shelf Research, 2017 - Elsevier
Sedimentary organic carbon in the Arctic, including the continental shelf and fjords, has
been relatively well investigated, whereas much less is known about sedimentary inorganic …

Understanding the role of terrestrial and marine carbon in the mid‐latitude fjords of Scotland

C Smeaton, WEN Austin - Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The sediments within fjords are critical components of the mid‐to high‐latitude coastal
carbon (C) cycle, trapping and storing more organic carbon (OC) per unit area than other …