Explores how the management of wetlands can influence carbon storage and fluxes.
Wetlands are vital natural assets, including their ability to take-up atmospheric carbon and restrict subsequent carbon loss to facilitate long-term storage. They can be deliberately managed to provide a natural solution to mitigate climate change, as well as to help offset direct losses of wetlands from various land-use changes and natural drivers.
Wetland Carbon and Environmental Management presents a collection of wetland research studies from around the world to demonstrate how environmental management can improve carbon sequestration while enhancing wetland health and function.
Volume highlights include:
- Overview of carbon storage in the landscape
- Introduction to wetland management practices
- Comparisons of natural, managed, and converted wetlands
- Impact of wetland management on carbon storage or loss
- Techniques for scientific assessment of wetland carbon processes
- Case studies covering tropical, coastal, inland, and northern wetlands
- Primer for carbon offset trading programs and how wetlands might contribute
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Table of Contents
List of Contributors ix
Foreword xvii
Preface xix
Part I Introduction to Carbon Management in Wetlands
1 A Review of Global Wetland Carbon Stocks and Management Challenges
Benjamin Poulter, Etienne Fluet-Chouinard, Gustaf Hugelius, Charlie Koven, Lola Fatoyinbo, Susan E. Page, Judith A. Rosentreter, Lindsey S. Smart, Paul J. Taillie, Nathan Thomas, Zhen Zhang, and Lahiru S. Wijedasa 3
2 Wetland Carbon in the United States: Conditions and Changes
Bergit Uhran, Zhiliang Zhu, Lisamarie Windham-Myers, Benjamin Sleeter, Nancy Cavallaro, Kevin D. Kroeger, and Gyami Shrestha 21
3 Biogeochemistry of Wetland Carbon Preservation and Flux
Scott C. Neubauer and J. Patrick Megonigal 33
4 An Overview of the History and Breadth of Wetland Management Practices
John Andrew Nyman 73
Part II Tidal Wetlands: Carbon Stocks, Fluxes and Management
5 Carbon Flux, Storage, and Wildlife Co-Benefits in a Restoring Estuary: Case Study at the Nisqually River Delta, Washington
Isa Woo, Melanie J. Davis, Susan E. W. De La Cruz, Lisamarie Windham-Myers, Judith Z. Drexler, Kristin B. Byrd, Ellen J. Stuart-Haëntjens, Frank E. Anderson, Brian A. Bergamaschi, Glynnis Nakai, Christopher S. Ellings, and Sayre Hodgson 105
6 Enhancing Carbon Storage in Mangrove Ecosystems of China through Sustainable Restoration and Aquaculture Actions
Luzhen Chen, Hangqing Fan, Zhinan Su, Qiulian Lin, and Yancheng Tao 127
7 Potential for Carbon and Nitrogen Sequestration by Restoring Tidal Connectivity and Enhancing Soil Surface Elevations in Denuded and Degraded South Florida Mangrove Ecosystems
Nicole Cormier, Ken W. Krauss, Amanda W. J. Demopoulos, Brita J. Jessen, Jennifer P. McClain Counts, Andrew S. From, and Laura L. Flynn 143
8 Optimizing Carbon Stocks and Sedimentation in Indonesian Mangroves under Different Management Regimes
Daniel Murdiyarso, Virni B. Arifanti, Frida Sidik, Meriadec Sillanpää, and Sigit D. Sasmito 159
9 Hydrological Rehabilitation and Sediment Elevation as Strategies to Restore Mangroves in Terrigenous and Calcareous Environments in Mexico
Jorge López-Portillo, Arturo Zaldívar-Jiménez, Ana Laura Lara-Domínguez, Rosela Pérez-Ceballos, Mariana Bravo-Mendoza, Nereida Núñez Álvarez, and Laura Aguirre-Franco 173
10 Controlling Factors of Long-Term Carbon Sequestration in the Coastal Wetland Sediments of the Modern Yellow River Delta Area, China: Links to Land Management
Lei He, Siyuan Ye, and Edward A. Laws 191
11 The Impacts of Aquaculture Activities on Greenhouse Gas Dynamics in the Subtropical Estuarine Zones of China
Derrick Y. F. Lai, Ping Yang, and Chuan Tong 213
12 Soil and Aboveground Carbon Stocks in a Planted Tropical Mangrove Forest (Can Gio, Vietnam) Truong Van Vinh, Cyril Marchand, Tran Vu Khanh Linh, Adrien Jacotot, Nguyen Thanh Nho, and Michel Allenbach 229
Part III Non-Tidal and Inland Wetlands: Carbon Stocks, Fluxes and Management
13 Carbon Flux Trajectories and Site Conditions from Restored Impounded Marshes in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta
Alex C. Valach, Kuno Kasak, Kyle S. Hemes, Daphne Szutu, Joe Verfaillie, and Dennis D. Baldocchi 249
14 Land Management Strategies Influence Soil Organic Carbon Stocks of Prairie Potholes of North America
Sheel Bansal, Brian A. Tangen, Robert A. Gleason, Pascal Badiou, and Irena F. Creed 273
15 Environmental and Human Drivers of Carbon Sequestration and Greenhouse Gas Emissions in the Ebro Delta, Spain
María Belenguer-Manzanedo, Maite Martinez-Eixarch, Siobhan Fennessy, Antonio Camacho, Daniel Morant, Carlos Rochera, Antonio Picazo, Anna C. Santamans, Javier Miralles-Lorenzo, Alba Camacho-Santamans, and Carles Ibañez 287
16 Controls on Carbon Loss During Fire in Managed Herbaceous Peatlands of the Florida Everglades
Brian W. Benscoter, James Johnson, and Lisa Reger 307
17 Winter Flooding to Conserve Agricultural Peat Soils in a Temperate Climate: Effect on Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Global Warming Potential
Brian A. Bergamaschi, Frank A. Anderson, Ellen J. Stuart-Haëntjens, and Brian A. Pellerin 321
18 Carbon Storage in the Coastal Swamp Oak Forest Wetlands of Australia
Jeffrey J. Kelleway, Maria Fernanda Adame, Connor Gorham, Jennifer Bratchell, Oscar Serrano, Paul S. Lavery, Christopher J. Owers, Kerrylee Rogers, Zachary Nagel-Tynan, and Neil Saintilan 339
19 Managing Water Regimes: Controlling Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Fires in Indonesian Tropical Peat Swamp Forests
Daniel Murdiyarso, Iska Lestari, Bayu Budi Hanggara, Meli Saragi-Sasmito, Imam Basuki, and Muh Taufik 355
20 Carbon Fluxes and Potential Soil Accumulation within Greater Everglades Cypress and Pine Forested Wetlands
W. Barclay Shoemaker, Frank E. Anderson, Matt J. Sirianni, and Andre Daniels 371
21 Modeling the Impacts of Hydrology and Management on Carbon Balance at the Great Dismal Swamp, Virginia and North Carolina, USA
Rachel R. Sleeter 385
Part IV Syntheses and Perspectives
22 Ecosystem Service Co‐Benefits of Wetland Carbon Management
Emily J. Pindilli 403
23 Status and Challenges of Wetlands in Carbon Markets
Sarah K. Mack, Robert R. Lane, Rori Cowan, and Jeffrey W. Cole 411
24 The Importance of Wetland Carbon Dynamics to Society: Insight from the Second State of the Carbon Cycle Science Report
Randy Kolka, Carl Trettin, and Lisamarie Windham-Myers 421
25 Summary of Wetland Carbon and Environmental Management: Path Forward
Zhiliang Zhu, Ken W. Krauss, Camille L. Stagg, Eric J. Ward, and Victoria L. Woltz 437
Index 447
