Surface water and groundwater interactions in salt marshes and their impact on plant ecology and coastal biogeochemistry

P Xin, A Wilson, C Shen, Z Ge, KB Moffett… - Reviews of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Salt marshes are highly productive intertidal wetlands providing important ecological
services for maintaining coastal biodiversity, buffering against oceanic storms, and acting as …

Estuarine and Coastal Ocean Carbon Paradox: CO2 Sinks or Sites of Terrestrial Carbon Incineration?

WJ Cai - Annual review of marine science, 2011 - annualreviews.org
Estuaries are a major boundary in the land-ocean interaction zone where organic carbon
(OC) and nutrients are being processed, resulting in a high water-to-air carbon dioxide …

The renaissance of Odum's outwelling hypothesis in'Blue Carbon'science

IR Santos, DJ Burdige, TC Jennerjahn… - Estuarine, Coastal and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract The term 'Blue Carbon'was coined about a decade ago to highlight the important
carbon sequestration capacity of coastal vegetated ecosystems. The term has paved the …

A global perspective on wetland salinization: ecological consequences of a growing threat to freshwater wetlands

ER Herbert, P Boon, AJ Burgin, SC Neubauer… - …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Salinization, a widespread threat to the structure and ecological functioning of inland and
coastal wetlands, is currently occurring at an unprecedented rate and geographic scale. The …

Carbonate chemistry and carbon sequestration driven by inorganic carbon outwelling from mangroves and saltmarshes

GMS Reithmaier, A Cabral, A Akhand… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Mangroves and saltmarshes are biogeochemical hotspots storing carbon in sediments and
in the ocean following lateral carbon export (outwelling). Coastal seawater pH is modified by …

Carbon budget of tidal wetlands, estuaries, and shelf waters of Eastern North America

RG Najjar, M Herrmann, R Alexander… - Global …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Carbon cycling in the coastal zone affects global carbon budgets and is critical for
understanding the urgent issues of hypoxia, acidification, and tidal wetland loss. However …

Air–sea exchanges of CO2 in the world's coastal seas

CTA Chen, TH Huang, YC Chen, Y Bai, X He… - …, 2013 - bg.copernicus.org
The air–sea exchanges of CO 2 in the world's 165 estuaries and 87 continental shelves are
evaluated. Generally and in all seasons, upper estuaries with salinities of less than two are …

Reconciling opposing views on carbon cycling in the coastal ocean: Continental shelves as sinks and near-shore ecosystems as sources of atmospheric CO2

CTA Chen, AV Borges - Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in …, 2009 - Elsevier
Despite their moderately sized surface area, continental marginal seas play a significant role
in the biogeochemical cycles of carbon, as they receive huge amounts of upwelled and …

Carbon outwelling and outgassing vs. burial in an estuarine tidal creek surrounded by mangrove and saltmarsh wetlands

IR Santos, DT Maher, R Larkin… - Limnology and …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Mangrove‐and saltmarsh‐dominated estuaries have high rates of organic carbon burial.
Here, we estimate soil, pore water, and surface‐water carbon fluxes in an Australian …

5.04-Carbon dioxide and methane dynamics in estuaries

A Borges, G Abril - 9780080878850, 2011 - orbi.uliege.be
Estuaries profoundly transform the large amounts of carbon delivered from rivers before their
transfer to the adjacent coastal zone. As a consequence of the complex biogeochemical …