Large-scale predictions of salt-marsh carbon stock based on simple observations of plant community and soil type

Ford, Hilary; Garbutt, Angus; Duggan-Edwards, Mollie; Pagès, Jordi F.; Harvey, Rachel; Ladd, Cai; Skov, Martin W.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-16-425-2019

Articles | Volume 16, issue 2

https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-16-425-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-16-425-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 16, issue 2

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25 Jan 2019

Research article |

| 25 Jan 2019

Large-scale predictions of salt-marsh carbon stock based on simple observations of plant community and soil type

Hilary Ford, Angus Garbutt, Mollie Duggan-Edwards, Jordi F. Pagès, Rachel Harvey, Cai Ladd, and Martin W. Skov

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RC1: 'Ford et al. bg-2018-339', Anonymous Referee #1, 14 Sep 2018
- AC1: 'Reply to Referee 1', Hilary Ford, 19 Oct 2018
RC2: 'Ford et al. Large-scale predictions of saltmarsh carbon stock based on simple 1 observations of plant community and soil type', Anonymous Referee #2, 30 Sep 2018
- AC2: 'Reply to Referee 2', Hilary Ford, 19 Oct 2018

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ED: Reconsider after major revisions (31 Oct 2018) by Steven Bouillon

AR by Hilary Ford on behalf of the Authors (12 Nov 2018)

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (27 Nov 2018) by Steven Bouillon

RR by Anonymous Referee #1 (10 Dec 2018)

ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by editor) (08 Jan 2019) by Steven Bouillon

AR by Hilary Ford on behalf of the Authors (08 Jan 2019) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (11 Jan 2019) by Steven Bouillon

AR by Hilary Ford on behalf of the Authors (16 Jan 2019)

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Carbon stored in coastal wetlands is of global relevance to climate regulation, but broadscale inventories of this "blue carbon" are lacking. Sampling salt marshes in the UK, we developed a predictive tool with the capacity to predict up to 44 % of spatial variation in soil carbon from simple observations of plant community and soil type. Marsh-specific maps of soil carbon were also produced, demonstrating the application of this easy-to-use tool for landscape-scale predictions of blue carbon.