Carbon Cycling and Carbon Sequestration in Wetlands
A special issue of Land (ISSN 2073-445X). This special issue belongs to the section "Land–Climate Interactions".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 December 2025 | Viewed by 4
Special Issue Editors
Interests: ecohydrology; carbon sequestration; soil organic carbon; wetlands
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Interests: soil management; soil policy; soil organic carbon
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Interests: soil organic carbon; wetland greenhouse gas emissions
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Wetlands are the largest carbon pools available and play a vital role in global carbon cycling and carbon sequestration, making them crucial for climate mitigation. Although widely recognized as important carbon sinks, significant uncertainties remain in estimating their carbon sequestration potential due to limitations in the number and representativeness of observational sites. There are still gaps in our understanding of carbon budget evaluations. Additionally, wetland carbon dynamics are highly sensitive to environmental changes, such as human activities and climate change, which may weaken their carbon sequestration capacity, even turning them into carbon sources. This Special Issue aims to analyze the carbon dynamic process in wetlands, estimate the carbon sequestration potential, reveal the key mechanisms behind them, and explore quantitative assessment methods for their carbon sequestration potential in order to provide a scientific basis for enhancing the carbon sequestration capacity of wetland ecosystems.
This Special Issue aims to reflect on state-of-the-art studies that focus on carbon cycling and carbon sequestration potential in terrestrial and tidal wetland ecosystems. In doing so, experts from different fields will be brought together, including soil scientists, biologists, geologists, hydrologists, social and economic scientists, and others.
The submission of manuscripts that link the following themes will be welcome:
- Carbon cycle process and environmental impacts;
- Carbon sequestration mechanisms in terrestrial and coastal ecosystems;
- The estimation of carbon sequestration potential;
- Technologies enhancing carbon sequestration and carbon sink;
- The economic and social values of carbon sequestration.
We look forward to receiving your original research articles and reviews.
Prof. Dr. Ligang Xu
Dr. Xiaobing Chen
Dr. Junxiang Cheng
Dr. Jiaxing Xu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- carbon cycling
- carbon sequestration
- climate change
- soil organic carbon
- blue carbon
- wetlands
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