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Contribution of mangroves to coastal carbon cycling in low latitude seas
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The contribution of mangrove carbon to the coastal ocean in low latitudes was evaluated in this paper, and it was shown that mangroves are a globally significant contributor to the carbon cycle in low latitude seas, and to greenhouse emissions resulting from tropical deforestation.About:
This article is published in Agricultural and Forest Meteorology.The article was published on 2015-11-01. It has received 117 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Mangrove & Carbon cycle.read more
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Indonesia's blue carbon: a globally significant and vulnerable sink for seagrass and mangrove carbon
Daniel M. Alongi,Daniel Murdiyarso,James W. Fourqurean,J. B. Kauffman,Andreas Hutahaean,S. Crooks,Catherine E. Lovelock,Jennifer Howard,Dorothée Herr,Miguel D. Fortes,Emily Pidgeon,T. Wagey +11 more
TL;DR: The global significance of carbon storage in Indonesia's coastal wetlands was assessed based on published and unpublished measurements of the organic carbon content of living seagrass and mangrove biomass and soil pools.
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Are mangroves drivers or buffers of coastal acidification? Insights from alkalinity and dissolved inorganic carbon export estimates across a latitudinal transect
TL;DR: In this article, the authors measured dissolved inorganic carbon parameters over complete tidal and diel cycles in six pristine mangrove tidal creeks covering a 26° latitudinal gradient in Australia and calculated the exchange of DIC, alkalinity, and [CO2*] between mangroves and the coastal ocean.
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Methane emissions partially offset “blue carbon” burial in mangroves
TL;DR: The results show that high CH4 evasion rates have the potential to partially offset blue carbon burial rates in mangrove sediments on average by 20% (sensitivity analysis offset range, 18 to 22%) using the 20-year global warming potential.
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Global Significance of Mangrove Blue Carbon in Climate Change Mitigation
TL;DR: The role of mangrove ecosystems in climate change mitigation is small at the global scale but more significant in the tropical coastal ocean and effective at the national and regional scale, especially in areas with high rates of deforestation and destruction as discussed by the authors.
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Edaphic factors controlling summer (rainy season) greenhouse gas emissions (CO2 and CH4) from semiarid mangrove soils (NE-Brazil)
Gabriel Nuto Nóbrega,Tiago Osório Ferreira,M. Siqueira Neto,Hermano M. Queiroz,Adriana Guirado Artur,Eduardo de Sá Mendonça,Ebenézer de Oliveira Silva,Xosé Luis Otero +7 more
TL;DR: Semiarid mangrove soils cannot be characterized as important greenhouse gas sources, compared to humid tropical mangroves, because they promote greater CO2 emission.
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A Large and Persistent Carbon Sink in the World’s Forests
Yude Pan,Richard Birdsey,Jingyun Fang,Jingyun Fang,Richard A. Houghton,Pekka E. Kauppi,Werner A. Kurz,Oliver L. Phillips,Anatoly Shvidenko,Simon L. Lewis,Josep G. Canadell,Philippe Ciais,Robert B. Jackson,Stephen W. Pacala,A. David McGuire,Shilong Piao,Aapo Rautiainen,Stephen Sitch,Daniel J. Hayes +18 more
TL;DR: The total forest sink estimate is equivalent in magnitude to the terrestrial sink deduced from fossil fuel emissions and land-use change sources minus ocean and atmospheric sinks, with tropical estimates having the largest uncertainties.
Supporting Online Material for A Large and Persistent Carbon Sink in the World's Forests
Yude Pan,Richard A. Birdsey,Jingyun Fang,Richard A. Houghton,Pekka E. Kauppi,Werner A. Kurz,Oliver L. Phillips,Anatoly Shvidenko,Simon L. Lewis,Philippe Ciais,Robert B. Jackson,Stephen W. Pacala,A. David McGuire,Shilong Piao,Aapo Rautiainen,Stephen Sitch,Daniel J. Hayes +16 more
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Mangroves among the most carbon-rich forests in the tropics
Daniel C. Donato,J. Boone Kauffman,Daniel Murdiyarso,Sofyan Kurnianto,Melanie Stidham,Markku Kanninen +5 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors quantified whole-ecosystem carbon storage by measuring tree and dead wood biomass, soil carbon content, and soil depth in 25 mangrove forests across a broad area of the Indo-Pacific region.
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Mangrove forests: Resilience, protection from tsunamis, and responses to global climate change
TL;DR: The authors assesses the degree of resilience of mangrove forests to large, infrequent disturbance (tsunamis) and their role in coastal protection, and to chronic disturbance events (climate change).
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Seagrass ecosystems as a globally significant carbon stock
James W. Fourqurean,Carlos M. Duarte,Carlos M. Duarte,Hilary Kennedy,Núria Marbà,Marianne Holmer,Miguel Ángel Mateo,Eugenia T. Apostolaki,Gary A. Kendrick,Dorte Krause-Jensen,Karen J. McGlathery,Oscar Serrano +11 more
TL;DR: In this article, an analysis of organic carbon data from just under one thousand seagrass meadows indicates that, globally, these systems could store between 4.2 and 8.4 Pg carbon.