Recent Carbon Storage and Burial Exceed Historic Rates in the San Juan Bay Estuary Peri-Urban Mangrove Forests (Puerto Rico, United States)

Recent Carbon Storage and Burial Exceed Historic Rates in the San Juan Bay Estuary Peri-Urban Mangrove Forests (Puerto Rico, United States)

Mangroves sequester significant quantities of organic carbon (C) because of high rates of burial in the soil and storage in biomass. We estimated mangrove forest C storage and accumulation rates in aboveground and belowground components among five sites along an urbanization gradient in the San Juan...

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Main Authors: Cathleen Wigand, Meagan Eagle, Benjamin L. Branoff, Stephen Balogh, Kenneth M. Miller, Rose M. Martin, Alana Hanson, Autumn J. Oczkowski, Evelyn Huertas, Joseph Loffredo, Elizabeth B. Watson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-06-01
Series:Frontiers in Forests and Global Change
Subjects:
mangrove
urbanization
tropical forest
soil carbon burial
CO2 emissions
carbon accumulation
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/ffgc.2021.676691/full

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