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 matter exchange and cycling in mangrove ecosystems: recent insights from stable isotope studies

S Bouillon, RM Connolly, SY Lee - Journal of sea research, 2008 - Elsevier
Mangrove ecosystems are highly productive tropical coastal ecosystems which have a
potentially high impact on the carbon budget of the tropical and global coastal zone. The …

[BUCH][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 …

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 …

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 …

Air–sea exchanges of CO2 in the world's coastal seas

CTA Chen, TH Huang, YC Chen, Y Bai, X He… - …, 2013 - bg.copernicus.org
The air–sea exchanges of CO 2 in the world's 165 estuaries and 87 continental shelves are
evaluated. Generally and in all seasons, upper estuaries with salinities of less than two are …

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 …

5.04-Carbon dioxide and methane dynamics in estuaries

A Borges, G Abril - 9780080878850, 2011 - orbi.uliege.be
Estuaries profoundly transform the large amounts of carbon delivered from rivers before their
transfer to the adjacent coastal zone. As a consequence of the complex biogeochemical …

Do we have enough pieces of the jigsaw to integrate CO2 fluxes in the coastal ocean?

AV Borges - Estuaries, 2005 - Springer
Annually integrated air-water CO 2 flux data in 44 coastal environments were compiled from
literature. Data were gathered in 8 major ecosystems (inner estuaries, outer estuaries, whole …