J Patrick Megonigal

Biographic Data

ID	6823587
NAME	J Patrick Megonigal
GIVEN NAMES	J Patrick
FAMILY NAME	Megonigal
SIGNATURE	MEGONIGAL J P
AFFILIATIONS	Smithsonian Environmental Research Center
ORCID	0000-0002-2018-7883
VERIFIED	Yes
TOTAL WORKS	5
TOTAL CITATIONS	0
WORKS AS AUTHOR	5
WORKS AS EDITOR	0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR	2012
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR	2022
H-INDEX	0

Operationalizing marketable blue carbon
Open AccessPeter I Macreadie, A I Robertson et al.ARTICLEOne Earth2022
Natural climate solutions for the United States
Open AccessJoseph Fargione, Steven Bassett et al.ARTICLEScience Advances2018
U.S. land management can contribute 1.2 Pg CO 2 e year −1 of greenhouse gas mitigation, 76% of which costs USD 50 Mg CO 2 e −1 or less.
Uncertainty in United States coastal wetland greenhouse gas inventorying
Open AccessJames R Holmquist, Lisamarie Windham‐Myers et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2018
Coastal wetlands store carbon dioxide (CO2) and emit CO2 and methane (CH4) making them an important part of greenhouse gas (GHG) inventorying. In the contiguous United States (CONUS), a coastal wetland inventory was recently calculated by combining maps of wetland type and change with soil, biomass, and CH4 flux data from a literature review. We assess uncertainty in this developing carbon monitoring system to quantify confidence in the inventory…
Global change accelerates carbon assimilation by a wetland ecosystem engineer
Open AccessJoshua S Caplan, Rachel Nia Hager et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2015
The primary productivity of coastal wetlands is changing dramatically in response to rising atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) concentrations, nitrogen (N) enrichment, and invasions by novel species, potentially altering their ecosystem services and resilience to sea level rise. In order to determine how these interacting global change factors will affect coastal wetland productivity, we quantified growing-season carbon assimilation (≈gross primary…
Estimating Global “Blue Carbon” Emissions from Conversion and Degradation of Vegetated Coastal Ecosystems
Open AccessLinwood H Pendleton, Linwood Pendleton et al.ARTICLEPLoS ONE2012
Recent attention has focused on the high rates of annual carbon sequestration in vegetated coastal ecosystems--marshes, mangroves, and seagrasses--that may be lost with habitat destruction ('conversion'). Relatively unappreciated, however, is that conversion of these coastal ecosystems also impacts very large pools of previously-sequestered carbon. Residing mostly in sediments, this 'blue carbon' can be released to the atmosphere when these ecosy…

Estimating Global “Blue Carbon” Emissions from Conversion and Degradation of Vegetated Coastal Ecosystems
Open AccessLinwood H Pendleton, Linwood Pendleton et al.ARTICLEPLoS ONE2012
Recent attention has focused on the high rates of annual carbon sequestration in vegetated coastal ecosystems--marshes, mangroves, and seagrasses--that may be lost with habitat destruction ('conversion'). Relatively unappreciated, however, is that conversion of these coastal ecosystems also impacts very large pools of previously-sequestered carbon. Residing mostly in sediments, this 'blue carbon' can be released to the atmosphere when these ecosy…
Global change accelerates carbon assimilation by a wetland ecosystem engineer
Open AccessJoshua S Caplan, Rachel Nia Hager et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2015
The primary productivity of coastal wetlands is changing dramatically in response to rising atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) concentrations, nitrogen (N) enrichment, and invasions by novel species, potentially altering their ecosystem services and resilience to sea level rise. In order to determine how these interacting global change factors will affect coastal wetland productivity, we quantified growing-season carbon assimilation (≈gross primary…
Natural climate solutions for the United States
Open AccessJoseph Fargione, Steven Bassett et al.ARTICLEScience Advances2018
U.S. land management can contribute 1.2 Pg CO 2 e year −1 of greenhouse gas mitigation, 76% of which costs USD 50 Mg CO 2 e −1 or less.
Uncertainty in United States coastal wetland greenhouse gas inventorying
Open AccessJames R Holmquist, Lisamarie Windham‐Myers et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2018
Coastal wetlands store carbon dioxide (CO2) and emit CO2 and methane (CH4) making them an important part of greenhouse gas (GHG) inventorying. In the contiguous United States (CONUS), a coastal wetland inventory was recently calculated by combining maps of wetland type and change with soil, biomass, and CH4 flux data from a literature review. We assess uncertainty in this developing carbon monitoring system to quantify confidence in the inventory…
Operationalizing marketable blue carbon
Open AccessPeter I Macreadie, A I Robertson et al.ARTICLEOne Earth2022