Chapter 6 Acknowledgements

This report was funded by Pew Charitable Trusts. It builds on the Coastal Carbon Library and Coastal Carbon Atlas, developed with funding by the National Science Foundation (DEB-1655622). We also thank Jon Lefcheck for his consultation on the seagrass mapping improvements section.

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