Cross-Border, Nature Based Market Solutions to Protect Blue Carbon Coastal Ecosystems in the Californias

March 2022

Table 5: Focus sites showing locations, tidal wetland extent, mean soil organic carbon density, soil Organic Carbon storage and estimated yearly organic storage.

Accumulation estimated at 2.5 mm per year -1 , a low end estimate based on data from other California lagoons. Two cores were collected per lagoon.

Source: Elizabeth Burke Watson and Alejandro-Hinojosa Corona, Assessment of Blue Carbon Storage by Baja California (Mexico) Tidal Wetlands and Evidence for Wetlands Stability in the Face of Anthropogenic and Climate Impacts , Sensors (Basel), 18(10): 32, January 2018.

Wildflowers along San Quintin coast with Encelia californica in the foreground. Photo Credit: Alan Harper

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