Estimating Global “Blue Carbon” Emissions from Conversion and Degradation of Vegetated Coastal Ecosystems

• Linwood Pendleton ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Linwood Pendleton, Daniel C. Donato

  Affiliation Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

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• Daniel C. Donato ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Linwood Pendleton, Daniel C. Donato

  * E-mail: ddonato@wisc.edu

  Affiliation Ecosystem & Landscape Ecology Lab, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

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• Brian C. Murray,

  Affiliation Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

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• Stephen Crooks,

  Affiliation ESA Phillip Williams & Associates, San Francisco, California, United States of America

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• W. Aaron Jenkins,

  Affiliation Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

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• Samantha Sifleet,

  Affiliation United States Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, United States of America

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• Christopher Craft,

  Affiliation School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, United States of America

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• James W. Fourqurean,

  Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences and Southeast Environmental Research Center, Florida International University, North Miami, Florida, United States of America

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• J. Boone Kauffman,

  Affiliation Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America and Center for International Forest Research, Bogor, Indonesia

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• Núria Marbà,

  Affiliation Department of Global Change Research, Mediterranean Institute for Advanced Studies, Esporles, Illes Balears, Spain

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• Patrick Megonigal,

  Affiliation Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, Edgewater, Maryland, United States of America

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• Emily Pidgeon,

  Affiliation Conservation International, Arlington, Virginia, United States of America

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• Dorothee Herr,

  Affiliation International Union for the Conservation of Nature, Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America

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• David Gordon,

  Affiliation Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

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• Alexis Baldera

  Affiliation The Ocean Conservancy, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States of America

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