Shorebird loss increases soil CO

Chunming Li, Yizhou Sun, Peter Müller, Mark D Bertness, Baoshan Cui, Lijuan Cui, Bo Li, Qiang He

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Article in Fundamental research, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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8 authors.

Chunming LiState Key Laboratory of Wetland Conservation and Restoration, National Observation and Research Station for Wetland Ecosystems of the Yangtze Estuary, Ministry of Education Key Laboratory for Biodiversity Science and Ecological Engineering, School of Life Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai 200438, China.

Yizhou SunState Key Laboratory of Wetland Conservation and Restoration, National Observation and Research Station for Wetland Ecosystems of the Yangtze Estuary, Ministry of Education Key Laboratory for Biodiversity Science and Ecological Engineering, School of Life Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai 200438, China.

Peter MüllerInstitute for Environmental Sciences, University of Kaiserslautern-Landau, 76829 Landau, Germany.

Mark D BertnessDepartment of Ecology, Evolution and Organismal Biology, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912, USA.

Baoshan CuiState Key Laboratory of Wetland Conservation and Restoration, School of Environment, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China.

Lijuan CuiState Key Laboratory of Wetland Conservation and Restoration, Institute of Wetland Research, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Beijing 100091, China.

Bo LiState Key Laboratory of Wetland Conservation and Restoration, National Observation and Research Station for Wetland Ecosystems of the Yangtze Estuary, Ministry of Education Key Laboratory for Biodiversity Science and Ecological Engineering, School of Life Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai 200438, China.

Qiang HeState Key Laboratory of Wetland Conservation and Restoration, National Observation and Research Station for Wetland Ecosystems of the Yangtze Estuary, Ministry of Education Key Laboratory for Biodiversity Science and Ecological Engineering, School of Life Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai 200438, China.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Countries worldwide are increasingly adopting nature-based solutions (NbS) to tackle the challenges of global climate change. One recently proposed NbS is wildlife conservation, yet the impact of wildlife on carbon emissions in ecosystems under restoration remains poorly understood. We assessed the role of shorebirds in regulating the carbon cycle of a coastal wetland under vegetation restoration, using a long-term field experiment that simulated the exacerbation of ongoing shorebird loss through shorebird exclusion. We found that compared to control treatments, shorebird exclusion significantly increased soil CO

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BioturbationBlue carbonKeystone speciesNature-based solutionsShorebirdsSoil respirationTop-down control

Identifiers

PMID42272527

DOI10.1016/j.fmre.2025.08.015

PMCPMC13247496

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