Carbon cycling and storage in mangrove forests

DM Alongi - Annual review of marine science, 2014 - annualreviews.org
Mangroves are ecologically and economically important forests of the tropics. They are
highly productive ecosystems with rates of primary production equal to those of tropical …

Organic carbon dynamics in mangrove ecosystems: a review

E Kristensen, S Bouillon, T Dittmar, C Marchand - Aquatic botany, 2008 - Elsevier
Our current knowledge on production, composition, transport, pathways and transformations
of organic carbon in tropical mangrove environments is reviewed and discussed. Organic …

Mangrove production and carbon sinks: a revision of global budget estimates

S Bouillon, AV Borges… - Global …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Mangrove forests are highly productive but globally threatened coastal ecosystems, whose
role in the carbon budget of the coastal zone has long been debated. Here we provide a …

[BOOK][B] The energetics of mangrove forests

D Alongi - 2009 - books.google.com
Despite their importance in sustaining livelihoods for many people living along some of the
world's most populous coastlines, tropical mangrove forests are disappearing at an alarming …

Carbonate chemistry and carbon sequestration driven by inorganic carbon outwelling from mangroves and saltmarshes

GMS Reithmaier, A Cabral, A Akhand… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Mangroves and saltmarshes are biogeochemical hotspots storing carbon in sediments and
in the ocean following lateral carbon export (outwelling). Coastal seawater pH is modified by …

Reconciling opposing views on carbon cycling in the coastal ocean: Continental shelves as sinks and near-shore ecosystems as sources of atmospheric CO2

CTA Chen, AV Borges - Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in …, 2009 - Elsevier
Despite their moderately sized surface area, continental marginal seas play a significant role
in the biogeochemical cycles of carbon, as they receive huge amounts of upwelled and …

Budgeting sinks and sources of CO2 in the coastal ocean: Diversity of ecosystems counts

AV Borges, B Delille… - Geophysical research …, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
Air‐water CO2 fluxes were up‐scaled to take into account the latitudinal and ecosystem
diversity of the coastal ocean, based on an exhaustive literature survey. Marginal seas at …

Carbon dioxide and methane emissions and the carbon budget of a 10‐year old tropical reservoir (Petit Saut, French Guiana)

G Abril, F Guérin, S Richard, R Delmas… - Global …, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
The emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane (CH4) from the Petit Saut hydroelectric
reservoir (Sinnamary River, French Guiana) to the atmosphere were quantified for 10 years …

Aboveground mangrove biomass estimation in Beibu Gulf using machine learning and UAV remote sensing

Y Tian, H Huang, G Zhou, Q Zhang, J Tao… - Science of the Total …, 2021 - Elsevier
On the basis of canopy height variables, vegetation index, texture index, and laser point
cloud index measured with unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) low altitude remote sensing, we …

Groundwater‐derived dissolved inorganic and organic carbon exports from a mangrove tidal creek: The missing mangrove carbon sink?

DT Maher, IR Santos, L Golsby-Smith… - Limnology and …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
A majority of the global net primary production of mangroves is unaccounted for by current
carbon budgets. It has been hypothesized that this “missing carbon” is exported as dissolved …