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ArticleNature communications2023

Shoreface erosion counters blue carbon accumulation in transgressive barrier-island systems.

Mary Bryan Barksdale, Christopher J Hein, Matthew L Kirwan

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Article in Nature communications, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Mary Bryan BarksdaleVirginia Institute of Marine Science, William & Mary, P.O. Box 1346, Gloucester Point, VA, 23062, USA. mbarksdale@vims.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9443-7606
Christopher J HeinVirginia Institute of Marine Science, William & Mary, P.O. Box 1346, Gloucester Point, VA, 23062, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4990-9405
Matthew L KirwanVirginia Institute of Marine Science, William & Mary, P.O. Box 1346, Gloucester Point, VA, 23062, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0658-3038

Funding

National Science Foundation (NSF) DEB-1832221National Science Foundation (NSF) EAR-1654374National Science Foundation (NSF) EAR-2012670National Science Foundation (NSF) EAR-2022987
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Landward migration of coastal ecosystems in response to sea-level rise is altering coastal carbon dynamics. Although such landscapes rapidly accumulate soil carbon, barrier-island migration jeopardizes long-term storage through burial and exposure of organic-rich backbarrier deposits along the lower beach and shoreface. Here, we quantify the carbon flux associated with the seaside erosion of backbarrier lagoon and peat deposits along the Virginia Atlantic Coast. Barrier transgression leads to the release of approximately 26.1 Gg of organic carbon annually. Recent (1994-2017 C.E.) erosion rates exceed annual soil carbon accumulation rates (1984-2020) in adjacent backbarrier ecosystems by approximately 30%. Additionally, shoreface erosion of thick lagoon sediments accounts for >80% of total carbon losses, despite containing lower carbon densities than overlying salt marsh peat. Together, these results emphasize the impermanence of carbon stored in coastal environments and suggest that existing landscape-scale carbon budgets may overstate the magnitude of the coastal carbon sink.

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PMID38114476
PMCPMC10730579

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