Ecosystem service co-benefits provided through wetland carbon management

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Edited by: Ken W. KraussZhiliang Zhu, and Camille L. Stagg

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Abstract

What is the role of wetland carbon management in providing ecosystem services? Ecosystem services are the benefits that nature provides to people, and they are often categorized as: provisioning (e.g., food and water), regulating (e.g., climate mitigation and flood protection), cultural (e.g., cultural and recreational), and supporting (e.g., nutrient cycling) services ( www.millenniumassessment.org/ ). Ecosystem services are a function of the quantity and quality of the ecosystem. External factors such as land development, pollution, fragmentation, resource overuse, and climate change can negatively influence an ecosystem's capacity to provide ecosystem services; conversely, management actions to conserve and restore systems can increase ecosystem services (Pindilli, 2019). Wetland carbon management is a set of preservation, conservation, or restoration actions used to preserve ecosystem function that protects or enhances stored carbon or biologic carbon sequestration, with the intent to regulate climate (see Moomaw et al., 2018). By managing for wetland carbon resources, there is often a co-benefit of the preservation or enhancement of other ecosystem services; it may also increase ecosystem disservices (such as mosquito production). This chapter provides an overview of the types of ecosystem service co-benefits provided by wetland carbon management, with specific examples from the literature.

Publication type Book chapter
Publication Subtype Book Chapter
Title Ecosystem service co-benefits provided through wetland carbon management
Chapter 22
DOI 10.1002/9781119639305.ch22
Year Published 2021
Language English
Publisher American Geophysical Union
Contributing office(s) National Climate Change and Wildlife Science Center, Science and Decisions Center, Wetland and Aquatic Research Center
Description 9 p.
Larger Work Type Book
Larger Work Subtype Monograph
Larger Work Title Wetland carbon and environmental management
First page 401
Last page 409
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