Wetland Carbon and Environmental Management

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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Ken W. Krauss, Research Physiological Ecologist, U.S. Geological Survey, Wetland and Aquatic Research Center, Lafayette, LA, USA.

Zhiliang Zhu, Program Chief, Land Carbon Program, U.S. Geological Survey, National Center, Sunrise Valley Dr., Reston, VA, USA.

Camille L. Stagg, Research Ecologist, U.S. Geological Survey, Wetland and Aquatic Research Center, Lafayette, LA, USA.

Preface (K.W. Krauss, Z. Zhu, C.L. Stagg)
Foreward (Scott Covington, Debra Willard) 

SECTION I: INTRODUCTION TO CARBON MANAGEMENT IN WETLANDS

1.1 The Wetland Landscape and the Global Carbon Cycle (E. Sundquist)
1.2 Carbon Storage in Wetlands: US National Assessment (B. Sleeter, Z. Zhu, N. Pastick, et al.)
1.3 Standing Stocks of Carbon in Global Wetlands (B. Poulter et al.)
1.4 Biogeochemistry of Wetland Carbon Storage and Flux (J.P. Megonigal & S.C. Neubauer)
1.5 Wetland Management Practices: A Review (J.A. Nyman et al.)

SECTION II: INLAND AND NON-TIDAL COASTAL WETLANDS

These will be case studies from around the world where active wetland management or research targeting environmental variability have provided insight into how the carbon standing stocks and fluxes (gaseous and lateral) might be managed for enhanced carbon sequestration in inland and non-tidal coastal wetlands.

2.1. Carbon Cycling and Potential Soil Accumulation within Cypress and Pine Forested Wetlands: The Role of Water and Ecosystem Management (B. Shoemaker et al.)
2.2. Wetland Carbon Management in the Prairie Pothole Region of the United States and Canada: Implications to the Soil Carbon Stock (S. Bansal, B. Tangen, R. Gleason, P. Badiou, & I. Creed)
2.3. Assessing the Impacts of Hydrology and Management on Belowground Carbon Stocks at the Great Dismal Swamp, Virginia, USA (J. Drexler, R. Sleeter, et al.)
2.4. Distribution and Controlling Factors of Sediment Carbon Flux Associated with Various Geological Evolutions in China: Links to Land Management (S. Ye, H. Brix, et al.)
2.5. Implications of Carbon-Water Cycling with Management of Shrubs in Freshwater Peatlands (B.W. Benscoter et al.)
2.6. Long-term Effects of Harvesting and Site Preparation on Carbon Stocks in a Sub-Boreal Histic-Mineral Soil Forested Wetland (C. Trettin, M. Jurgensen, et al.)
2.7. Paludiculture and Carbon in European Marshes (B. Sorrell, H. Brix, et al.)
2.8. Managing to Reverse Peat Loss: Estuarine
Casuarina and Melaleuca Forests of Australia (J. Kelleway, N. Saintilan, K. Rogers, F. Adame, C. Lovelock et al.)
2.9. The effectiveness of rewetting degraded tropical peatlands to reduce carbon fluxes in Indonesia (D. Murdiyarso, I. Basuki, K. Hergoualc’h, T. Darusman, M. Saragi-Sasmito)

SECTION III: TIDAL WETLANDS

These will be case studies from around the world where active wetland management or research targeting environmental variability have provided insight into how the carbon standing stocks and fluxes (gaseous and lateral) might be managed for enhanced carbon sequestration in tidal wetlands.

3.1. Wetland Ecosystem Management and Carbon Fluxes: Effects of Vegetation/Water Fractions and Age of Development (D. Baldocchi et al.)
3.2. Chinese Mangrove Ecosystems for Blue Carbon Management (Guanghui Lin et al.)
3.3. Global Warming Potential of Mediterranean Wetlands and Rice Fields: Environmental and Management Drivers (C. Ibañez, et al.)
3.4. Carbon Flux, Storage, and Wildlife Co-Benefits in a Restoring Estuary: Case Study at the Nisqually River Delta, Washington, USA (I. Woo et al.)
3.5. The Significance of Winter Flooding Peat Soils in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta on Carbon Dioxide and Methane Fluxes (B. Bergamaschi et al.)
3.6. Mexican Mangroves and Carbon Management (J. López-Portillo et al.)
3.7. The Impacts of Aquaculture Activities on Greenhouse Gas Dynamics in the Sub-Tropical Estuarine Zones of China (Derrick Y.F. Lai et al.)
3.8 Management to Enhance Carbon Storage in Mangrove Ecosystems of China Through Restoration Actions (Luzhen Chen et al.)
3.9. The Role of River Management in Dissolved Carbon Export from an Everglades River, Southwest Florida, USA (D. Ho & D. Maher)
3.10. Potential for Carbon Sequestration by Restoring Tidal Connectivity to Denuded South Florida Mangrove Ecosystems (K.W. Krauss, N. Cormier, A.W.J. Demopoulos, B. Jessen, et al.)
3.11. Managing carbon stocks in Indonesian mangroves for multiple objectives (D. Murdiyarso, V. Arifanti, S.D. Sasmito, F. Sidik, M. Sillanpaa)
3.12. Soil and above ground carbon stocks in a planted tropical mangrove forest along an intertidal elevation gradient (Can Gio, Vietnam) (C. Marchand, et al.)

SECTION IV: PERSPECTIVES AND SYNTHESIS

4.1. Status and Challenges of Wetlands in Carbon Markets (S. Mack et al.)
4.2. The Importance of Wetlands to Society: Insight from the Second State of the Carbon Cycle Science Report (R. Kolka et al.)
4.3. Ecosystem Services Provided through Carbon Management (E. Pindilli et al.)
4.4. Perspectives on Policy on the Role of Wetland Management for Carbon (C. Richardson)
4.5. Summary of Wetland Carbon and Environmental Management: Pathways Forward (Z. Zhu, K.W. Krauss, C.L. Stagg, S. Covington, E. Sundquist)

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