In this report, we analyze the potential of so-called blue carbon NBS, which are designed to protect or enhance ecosystems on coasts and in the oceans. We consider three categories of blue carbon solutions, which we rank according to their scientific and economic maturity:...
Eight new seagrass beds were discovered along the coastline of Hainan Island in South China Sea with an area of 203.64ha. The leaf N content of all se…[ZhijianJiangSonglinLiuJingpingZhangChunyuZhaoYunchaoMarine Pollution BulletinNewly discovered seagrass beds and their potential for blue carbon ...
There is a growing interest in how the management of 'blue carbon' sequestered by coastal wetlands can influence global greenhouse gas (GHG) budgets. A promising intervention is through restoring tidal exchange to impounded coastal wetlands for reduced methane (CH) emissions. We monitored an im...
of blue carbon and support projects with aquafarmers and operators. As a bonus, the estimated content and maps have been used to uncover previously undiscovered seagrass. They have found that PlanetScope “speeds up the cycle for the creation of eelgrass maps, and hope it will ...
More recently, the interest in salinity power has been growing because of the need for carbon neutral, renewable sources of electricity. This study aims to assess the potential of salinity-gradient power for reducing emissions of CO2 and non-CO2 greenhouse gases. First, we discuss the global ...
Mangroves are widely distributed in the upper part of tropical and subtropical intertidal zones, with the characteristics of high productivity and fast deposition rate. Under the combined action of its own growth and microorganisms, mangroves capture, transform and store CO2 in the atmosphere into ...
The term "blue carbon" refers to the organic carbon sequestered and stored by the ocean and, by coastal vegetated ecosystems as seagrasses, saltmarshes and mangroves (Nellemann et al., 2009). These ecosystems are able to sequester large quantity of carbon in the soil acting as natural sink an...
(n = 23,570) represents an individual bird simulated in each landscape in each repetition. The forest cover of the landscapes is represented with colours. In the scatter plots, the points and lines are coloured from light green to dark blue (9–61% forest cover); in the box plots,...
A controlled environment study was performed to examine the direct short-term effects of decreasing soil moisture in the lowbush blueberry. Four computer controlled growth chambers were used and stem water potential (SWP), transpiration rate and net carbon exchange rate (NCER) were measured. The ...
With a growing body of research associating livestock agriculture with faster global warming, higher health costs and greater land requirements, a drastic shift towards plant-based diets is often suggested as an effective all-round solution. Implicitly, this argument is predicated on the assumption tha...