Coastal Carbon

Reports and Publications

Coastal Carbon Network Reports

The Coastal Carbon Network (CCN) produces regular reports on the state of available blue carbon data. These are available for download below.

Blue Carbon Data Report (International)

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Version 1.2.0

22 April, 2024

Blue Carbon Data Report (United States)

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Version 1.2.0

12 June, 2024


Publications by the Coastal Carbon Community

Arias‐Ortiz, A., Wolfe, J., Bridgham, S. D., Knox, S., McNicol, G., Needelman, B. A., ... & Holmquist, J. R. (2024). Methane fluxes in tidal marshes of the conterminous United StatesGlobal Change Biology30(9), e17462.

Holmquist, J. R., Klinges, D., Lonneman, M., Wolfe, J., Boyd, B., Eagle, M., ... & Megonigal, J. P. (2024). The Coastal Carbon Library and Atlas: Open source soil data and tools supporting blue carbon research and policyGlobal Change Biology30(1), e17098.

Maxwell, T. L., Rovai, A. S., Adame, M. F., Adams, J. B., Álvarez-Rogel, J., Austin, W. E., ... & Worthington, T. A. (2023). Global dataset of soil organic carbon in tidal marshesScientific data10(1), 797.

Malhotra, A., Todd-Brown, K., Nave, L. E., Batjes, N. H., Holmquist, J. R., Hoyt, A. M., ... & Vindušková, O. (2019). The landscape of soil carbon data: emerging questions, synergies and databases. Progress in Physical Geography: Earth and Environment, 43(5), 707-719.

Rogers, K., Kelleway, J. J., Saintilan, N., Megonigal, J. P., Adams, J. B., Holmquist, J. R., ... & Woodroffe, C. D. (2019). Wetland carbon storage controlled by millennial-scale variation in relative sea-level rise.

Holmquist, J. R., Windham-Myers, L., Bernal, B., Byrd, K. B., Crooks, S., Gonneea, M. E., ... & Megonigal, J. P. (2018). Uncertainty in United States coastal wetland greenhouse gas inventorying. Environmental Research Letters, 13(11), 115005.

Holmquist, J. R., Windham-Myers, L., Bliss, N., Crooks, S., Morris, J. T., Megonigal, J. P., ... & Ferner, M. C. (2018). Accuracy and precision of tidal wetland soil carbon mapping in the conterminous United States. Scientific reports, 8(1), 9478.