TY - JOUR
T1 - Global patterns in mangrove soil carbon stocks and losses
AU - Atwood, Trisha B.
AU - Connolly, Rod M.
AU - Connolly, Rod M.
AU - Almahasheer, Hanan
AU - Carnell, Paul E.
AU - Carnell, Paul E.
AU - Duarte, Carlos M.
AU - Duarte, Carlos M.
AU - Ewers Lewis, Carolyn J.
AU - Ewers Lewis, Carolyn J.
AU - Irigoien, Xabier
AU - Irigoien, Xabier
AU - Kelleway, Jeffrey J.
AU - Kelleway, Jeffrey J.
AU - Lavery, Paul S.
AU - Lavery, Paul S.
AU - Macreadie, Peter I.
AU - Macreadie, Peter I.
AU - Serrano, Oscar
AU - Serrano, Oscar
AU - Sanders, Christian J.
AU - Sanders, Christian J.
AU - Santos, Isaac
AU - Santos, Isaac
AU - Steven, Andrew D. L.
AU - Lovelock, Catherine E.
AU - Lovelock, Catherine E.
N1 - KAUST Repository Item: Exported on 2020-10-01
Acknowledgements: Support was provided by the CSIRO Coastal Carbon Biogeochemistry Cluster. We also acknowledge the support of The Oceans Institute of the University of Western Australia, the Global Change Institute of The University of Queensland, and the Australian Research Council (Awards DE130101084, DE170101524, LP160100242, LE140100083 and DP150103286) and King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) through the baseline fund to C.M.D. We would like to thank P. Terletzky-Gese for assistance with GIS.
PY - 2017/6/26
Y1 - 2017/6/26
N2 - Mangrove soils represent a large sink for otherwise rapidly recycled carbon (C). However, widespread deforestation threatens the preservation of this important C stock. It is therefore imperative that global patterns in mangrove soil C stocks and their susceptibility to remineralization are understood. Here, we present patterns in mangrove soil C stocks across hemispheres, latitudes, countries and mangrove community compositions, and estimate potential annual CO2 emissions for countries where mangroves occur. Global potential CO2 emissions from soils as a result of mangrove loss were estimated to be ~7.0 Tg CO2e yr−1. Countries with the highest potential CO2 emissions from soils are Indonesia (3,410 Gg CO2e yr−1) and Malaysia (1,288 Gg CO2e yr−1). The patterns described serve as a baseline by which countries can assess their mangrove soil C stocks and potential emissions from mangrove deforestation.
AB - Mangrove soils represent a large sink for otherwise rapidly recycled carbon (C). However, widespread deforestation threatens the preservation of this important C stock. It is therefore imperative that global patterns in mangrove soil C stocks and their susceptibility to remineralization are understood. Here, we present patterns in mangrove soil C stocks across hemispheres, latitudes, countries and mangrove community compositions, and estimate potential annual CO2 emissions for countries where mangroves occur. Global potential CO2 emissions from soils as a result of mangrove loss were estimated to be ~7.0 Tg CO2e yr−1. Countries with the highest potential CO2 emissions from soils are Indonesia (3,410 Gg CO2e yr−1) and Malaysia (1,288 Gg CO2e yr−1). The patterns described serve as a baseline by which countries can assess their mangrove soil C stocks and potential emissions from mangrove deforestation.
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10754/625640
UR - https://www.nature.com/nclimate/journal/v7/n7/full/nclimate3326.html
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85021761482&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1038/nclimate3326
DO - 10.1038/nclimate3326
M3 - Article
SN - 1758-678X
VL - 7
SP - 523
EP - 528
JO - Nature Climate Change
JF - Nature Climate Change
IS - 7
ER -