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Predictive mapping of organic carbon stocks in surficial sediments of the Canadian continental margin. <i>ESSD 16(5)</i>: 2165-2195. <a href=\"https://dx.doi.org/10.5194/essd-16-2165-2024\" target=\"_blank\">https://dx.doi.org/10.5194/essd-16-2165-2024</a>","BEntID":407503,"PublicFlag":1,"CheckedFlag":0,"wosflag":1,"vabbflag":0,"RefStringPartII":". <i>ESSD 16(5)</i>: 2165-2195. <a href=\"https://dx.doi.org/10.5194/essd-16-2165-2024\" target=\"_blank\">https://dx.doi.org/10.5194/essd-16-2165-2024</a>","DocTypID":8,"DocType":"Journal article","MarineFlag":0,"FreshFlag":0,"BrackishFlag":0,"TerrestrialFlag":0,"Authorstring":"Epstein, G.; Fuller, S.D.; Hingmire, D.; Myers, P.G.; Peña, A.; Pennelly, C.; Baum, J.K.","OrigTitleTranslFlag":0,"Authorstringtrunc":"Epstein, G. <i>et al.</i>","Englishabstract":"Quantification and mapping of surficial seabed sediment organic carbon have wide-scale relevance for marine ecology, geology and environmental resource management, with carbon densities and accumulation rates being a major indicator of geological history, ecological function and ecosystem service provisioning, including the potential to contribute to nature-based climate change mitigation. While global analyses can appear to provide a definitive understanding of the spatial distribution of sediment carbon, regional maps may be constructed at finer resolutions and can utilise targeted data syntheses and refined spatial data products and therefore have the potential to improve these estimates. Here, we report a national systematic review of data on organic carbon content in seabed sediments across Canada and combine this with a synthesis and unification of the best available data on sediment composition, seafloor morphology, hydrology, chemistry and geographic settings within a machine learning mapping framework. Predictive quantitative maps of mud content, dry bulk density, organic carbon content and organic carbon density were produced along with cell-specific estimates of their uncertainty at 200 m resolution across 4 489 235 km<sup>2</sup> of the Canadian continental margin (92.6 % of the seafloor area above 2500 m) (<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.5683/SP3/ICHVVA\">https://doi.org/10.5683/SP3/ICHVVA</a>, Epstein et al., 2024). Fine-scale variation in carbon stocks was identified across the Canadian continental margin, particularly in the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Ocean regions. Overall, we estimate the standing stock of organic carbon in the top 30 cm of surficial seabed sediments across the Canadian shelf and slope to be 10.9 Gt (7.0–16.0 Gt). 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