资源环境科技发展态势分析平台

Coastal wetland carbon pools are globally important, but their response to interacting facets of global change remain unclear. Numerical models neglect species‐specific vegetation responses to sea level rise (SLR) and elevated CO₂ (eCO₂) that are observed in field experiments, while field experiments cannot address the long‐term feedbacks between flooding and soil growth that models show are important. Here, we present a novel numerical model of marsh carbon accumulation parameterized with empirical observations from a long‐running eCO₂ experiment in an organic rich, brackish marsh. Model results indicate that eCO₂ and SLR interact synergistically to increase soil carbon burial, driven by shifts in plant community composition and soil volume expansion. However, newly parameterized interactions between plant biomass and decomposition (i.e. soil priming) reduce the impact of eCO₂ on marsh survival, and by inference, the impact of eCO₂ on soil carbon accumulation.