Wetlands and Climate Change

This instructional guide is designed to provide instructors with lecture materials and resources that examine the relationship between wetlands and global climate change.  Student objectives, a general lecture outline and a more detailed PowerPoint presentation with instructor notes are provided.  The role of wetlands in global carbon budgets and as sources and sinks of greenhouse gases is discussed.  Anticipated impacts of climate change on both coastal and inland wetlands are also presented.

Instructors who are looking for videos or additional print and web-based resources on the topics covered here should consult the resources  list  provided at the end of this module where these resources are summarized and cited.

Module Objectives

Upon successful completion of this module students should be able to:

• Describe the importance of wetlands as sources and sinks of greenhouse gases
• Describe the impacts of wetlands on global climate change
• Describe the impacts of global climate change on both coastal and inland wetlands
• Describe how carbon trading has been applied to wetlands

Lecture Outline

Sample PowerPoint Slide with instructor notes

Module download (8.1 MB)

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