Multi-scale mapping of Australia's terrestrial and blue carbon stocks and their bioregional environmental drivers
DOI10.5281/zenodo.7787493Zenodo7787493MaRDI QIDQ6686951FDOQ6686951
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Madeline Goddard, Damien Maher, Pawel Waryszak, Connor Gorham, Luke Mosley, Gloria Reithmaier, Oscar Serrano, James Sippo, Jeffery Kelleway, Carlos M. Duarte, Fernanda Adame, Sabine Kasel, John Barry Gallagher, Rakib Hassan, Lauren Bennett, Sabine Dittmann, Anna Lafratta, Paul Lavery, Lewis Walden, Catherine Lovelock, Nina Hinko-Najera, Peter MacReadie, Raphael Viscarra Rossel, Alice Jones, Mingxi Zhang, Zefang Shen
Publication date: 14 April 2023
Soils in terrestrial and coastal blue carbon ecosystems are an important carbon sink. National carbon inventories require accurate assessments of soil carbon in these ecosystems to aid conservation and nature-based climate change mitigation strategies. Here we harmonise measurements from Australias terrestrial and blue carbon ecosystems and apply a multiscale spatial machine learning model to estimate soil carbon stocks and drivers of variation. We find that climate and vegetation are the primary drivers of variation at the continental scale, with ecosystem type, terrain, clay content, mineralogy and nutrients drive subregional variations. We estimate that in the top 030cm soil layer, terrestrial ecosystems hold 27.6 Gt C (19.639.0 Gt C), and blue carbon ecosystems hold 0.35 GtC (0.200.62 GtC). Tall open eucalypt and mangrove forests have the largest soil carbon content by area, while eucalypt woodlands and hummock grasslands have the largest total carbon stock due to their large area. Our findings suggest these are important ecosystems for conservation and nature-based mitigation climate change strategies.
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