LSU Researchers Join Multi-Institutional Team to Investigate Sources of Methane in Coastal Wetlands sciencex.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from sciencex.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Today on Louisiana Considered, we bring you three stories about water. We hear why residents in Tangipahoa Parish are now closer than ever to financial restitution after flood damage from 40 years ago and we learn about an upcoming waterways exhibition at LSU. Plus we dive deeper into Jackson, Mississippi’s water crisis.
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Coastal wetlands are highly productive ecosystems with an exceptional capacity for sequestering organic matter in the accumulating substrate. Recent studies have focused on intertidal saltmarsh and mangrove communities with limited research extending to the supratidal wetland forests, especially in temperature regions. The overall aim to fill the knowledge gap present in current literature by addressing two aims. The aims of this study is to (1) determine the processes driving the development and persistence of supratidal wetland forests in Corner Inlet, Victoria, Australia; and (2) reconstruct the historic vegetation shifts that have occurred in the embayment over the Holocene. A combination of stratigraphic analyses and photogrammetry were used to achieve these aim. Cores were collected to quantify the accumulation and preservation of organic matter across the intertidal-supratidal wetland gradient. Results from stratigraphic logs, bulk density and loss-on-ignition analyses, grain si
Restoration of coastal wetlands has the potential to deliver both climate change mitigation, called blue carbon, and adaptation benefits to coastal communities, as well as supporting biodiversity and providing additional ecosystem services. Valuing carbon sequestration may incentivize restoration projects; however, it requires development of rigorous methods for quantifying blue carbon sequestered during coastal wetland restoration. We describe the development of a blue carbon accounting model (BlueCAM) used within the Tidal Restoration of Blue Carbon Ecosystems Methodology Determination 2022 of the Emissions Reduction Fund (ERF), which is Australia's voluntary carbon market scheme. The new BlueCAM uses Australian data to estimate abatement from carbon and greenhouse gas sources and sinks arising from coastal wetland restoration (via tidal restoration) and aligns with the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change guidelines for national greenhouse gas inventories. BlueCAM include