BACKGROUND Reducing carbon Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD+) is of central importance to combat climate change. Foremost among the challenges is quantifying nation's carbon emissions from deforestation and degradation, which requires information on forest carbon storage. Here we estimated carbon storage in India's forest biomass for the years 2003, 2005 and 2007 and the net f...

Land use practices greatly influence soil carbon stocks, which in turn influences the potential for soils to store carbon. With a growing interest in the use of a carbon credit system to decrease atmospheric carbon dioxide, there is increasing interest in development of cost effective methods for identifying land cover types and land use practices that maximize carbon storage potential. This st...

12 Recent studies have identified the first-order representation of microbial decomposition as a 13 major source of uncertainty in simulations and projections of the terrestrial carbon balance. 14 Here, we use a reduced complexity model representative of current state-of-the-art models of 15 soil organic carbon decomposition. We undertake a systematic sensitivity analysis to 16 disentangle the ...

Abstract. Salt marshes and seagrass meadows can sequester store high quantities of organic carbon (OC) in their sediments relative to other marine terrestrial habitats. Assessing stocks, sources, the transfer between habitats within coastal seascapes are each integral identifying role blue cycling. Here, we quantified exchanges meadows, salt marshes, unvegetated six bays along California coast....