Carbon sequestration and subsidence reversal

Carbon sequestration and subsidence reversal in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta and Suisun Bay: management opportunities for climate mitigation and adaptation

Lisamarie Windham-Myers, Patty Oikawa, Steve Deverel, Dylan Chapple, Judith Z. Drexler, Dylan Stern

Article link: https://doi.org/10.15447/sfews.2023v20iss4art7

Over the last few centuries, changing landscapes and land uses in the Delta have resulted in loss of land elevation (subsidence), emission of greenhouse gases, and depletion of carbon from Delta soils. This chapter reviews the state of the science underlying the processes of carbon sequestration (i.e., capturing and storing carbon on the landscape) and subsidence reversal (i.e., reversing loss of land elevation) in the Delta and specifically explores how management interventions involving manipulating flows, vegetation, and nutrients, could slow or reverse carbon loss from Delta soils.