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Mangrove production and carbon sinks : a revision of global budget estimates - art. no. GB2013
Steven Bouillon,Alberto Borges,E. Castaneda Moya,Karen Diele,Thorsten Dittmar,Norman C. Duke,Erik Kristensen,Shing Yip Lee,Cyril Marchand,Jack J. Middelburg,V. H. Rivera Monroy,Thomas J. Smith,Robert R. Twilley +12 more
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The unaccounted carbon sink is conservatively estimated at 112 ± 85 Tg C a 1, equivalent in magnitude to 30-40% of the global riverine organic carbon input to the coastal zone.Abstract:
results in a conservative estimate of 218 ± 72 Tg C a 1 . When using the best available estimates of various carbon sinks (organic carbon export, sediment burial, and mineralization), it appears that >50% of the carbon fixed by mangrove vegetation is unaccounted for. This unaccounted carbon sink is conservatively estimated at 112 ± 85 Tg C a 1 , equivalent in magnitude to 30–40% of the global riverine organic carbon input to the coastal zone. Our analysis suggests that mineralization is severely underestimated, and that the majority of carbon export from mangroves to adjacent waters occurs as dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC). CO2 efflux from sediments and creek waters and tidal export of DIC appear to be the major sinks. These processes are quantitatively comparable in magnitude to the unaccounted carbon sink in current budgets, but are not yet adequately constrained with the limited published data available so far.read more
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