Transforming Palmyra Atoll to native-tree dominance will increase net carbon storage and reduce dissolved organic carbon reef runoff

• Kate Longley-Wood ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Kate Longley-Wood, Mary Engels

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: Kate.Longley-Wood@tnc.org

  Affiliation The Nature Conservancy, Protect Oceans Land and Water Program, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7067-1059

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• Mary Engels ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Kate Longley-Wood, Mary Engels

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Natural Resources and Society, University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6975-0852

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• Kevin D. Lafferty ,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ KDL, JPM and AW also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation U.S. Geological Survey, Western Ecological Research Center at Marine Science Institute, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California, United States of America

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• John P. McLaughlin ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ KDL, JPM and AW also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation University of California, Santa Barbara, Marine Science Institute, Santa Barbara, California, United States of America

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• Alex Wegmann

  Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ KDL, JPM and AW also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation The Nature Conservancy, Sacramento, California, United States of America

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