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Climate Regulation: Salt Marshes and Blue Carbon

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Carbon sequestered and stored in, or released from salt marshes, mangroves, and seagrass ecosystems, is often referred to as coastal “blue carbon.” This additional ecosystem service makes coastal “blue carbon” ecosystems very attractive to the climate change policy and carbon finance communities.

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  1. IUCN, Manager, Oceans and Climate Change, Rue Mauverney 28, 1196, Gland, Switzerland

    Dorothée Herr

  2. Department of Geology, Bates College, Carnegie Science Hall, 04240, Lewiston, ME, USA

    Beverly J. Johnson

  3. The School of Biological Sciences, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, 4072, QLD, Australia

    Catherine E. Lovelock

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  1. Dept. of Ecology and Biodiversity, Charles Sturt University Inst. for Land, Water and Society, Albury, New South Wales, Australia

    C. Max Finlayson

  2. Great Somerford, Wiltshire, United Kingdom

    Mark Everard

  3. Chair of Aquatic Ecosystems, UNESCO-IHE Chair of Aquatic Ecosystems, Delft, The Netherlands

    Kenneth Irvine

  4. RM Wetland & Environment Ltd. , Littleworth, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom

    Robert J. McInnes

  5. USGS National Wetlands Research Center , Lafayette, Louisiana, USA

    Beth A. Middleton

  6. Dept. of Water Science and Engineering, UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education Dept. of Water Science and Engineering, Delft, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands

    Anne A. van Dam

  7. Charles Sturt University , Albury, New South Wales, Australia

    Nick C. Davidson

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Johnson, B.J., Lovelock, C.E., Herr, D. (2016). Climate Regulation: Salt Marshes and Blue Carbon. In: Finlayson, C., et al. The Wetland Book. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6172-8_213-1

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