Organic carbon inventories in natural and restored Ecuadorian mangrove forests.

ABSTRACT: Mangroves can capture and store organic carbon and their protection and therefore their restoration is a component of climate change mitigation. However, there are few empirical measurements of long-term carbon storage in mangroves or of how storage varies across environmental gradients. The context dependency of this process combined with geographically limited field sampling has made it difficult to generalize regional and global rates of mangrove carbon sequestration. This has in turn hampered the inclusion of sequestration by mangroves in carbon cycle models and in carbon offset markets. The purpose of this study was to estimate the relative carbon capture and storage potential in natural and restored mangrove forests. We measured depth profiles of soil organic carbon content in 72 cor

SUBMITTER: DelVecchia AG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4034597 | biostudies-literature | 2014

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature