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FRONTIERS IN MARINE SCIENCE
卷 8, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
FRONTIERS MEDIA SA
DOI: 10.3389/fmars.2021.661442
关键词
salt marsh; decomposition; blue carbon; greenhouse gas emissions; erosion; sediment organic matter; carbon fluxes and pools; coastal wetlands
资金
- Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program (SERDP)
Coastal wetlands have sediments containing organic matter preserved for millennia, acting as a sink for atmospheric carbon dioxide and potential source of greenhouse gases. By measuring the decomposition rates of carbon in wetland sediments under oxygenated conditions, it is estimated that eroded salt marsh sediment in the United States releases 62.90 +/- 2.81 Gg C . yr(-1) annually.
Coastal wetlands have sediments that contain organic matter preserved against decomposition for timespans that can range up to millennia. This blue carbon in wetland sediments has been proposed as a sink for atmospheric carbon dioxide and a potential source of greenhouse gases if coastal habitats are lost. A missing gap in the role of coastal habitats in the global carbon cycle is elucidating the fate of wetland sediment carbon following disturbance events, such as erosion, that can liberate organic matter to an oxygenated environment where decomposition can more readily occur. Here, we track the fate of previously stored salt marsh sediment by measuring the production of carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane (CH4) during an oxygenated incubation. Sediments from two depth horizons (5-10 cm and 20-25 cm) were incubated at two temperatures (20 and 30 degrees C) for 161 days. Q(10) of the decomposition process over the entire course of the experiment was 2.0 +/- 0.1 and 2.2 +/- 0.2 for shallow and deep horizons, respectively. Activation energy for the decomposition reaction (49.7 kJ . mol(-1) and 58.8 kJ . mol(-1) for shallow and deep sediment horizons, respectively) was used to calculate temperature-specific decomposition rates that could be applied to environmental data. Using high-frequency water temperature data, this strategy was applied to coastal states in the conterminous United States (CONUS) where we estimated annual in situ decomposition of eroded salt marsh organic matter as 7-24% loss per year. We estimate 62.90 +/- 2.81 Gg C . yr(-1) is emitted from eroded salt marsh sediment decomposition in the CONUS.
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