Articles | Volume 16, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-16-425-2019
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-16-425-2019
Research article
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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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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.
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