Carbon storage of a tropical mangrove forest in Mui Ca Mau National Park, Vietnam

Tuệ, Nguyễn Tài; Dũng, Lưu Việt; Nhuận, Mai Trọng; Omori, Koji

doi:10.1016/j.catena.2014.05.008

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“…Mangrove soils were the largest repository of C stocks in Bhitarkanika mangroves; this reflects results seen in mangroves around the world , Murdiyarso et al 2009, Alongi 2012, Adame et al 2013, Ajonina et al 2014, Jones et al 2014, Tue et al 2014. The average soil C stocks within 0-100-cm soil depths for the studied land use types (56-111 Mg C/ha) were lower in comparison to C stocks in other mangrove forests for the same depth.…”

Section: Vegetation Biomass Mangrove Soils and Ecosystem Carbon Poolssupporting

confidence: 71%

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Impacts of land use on Indian mangrove forest carbon stocks: Implications for conservation and management

Bhomia

MacKenzie

Murdiyarso

et al. 2016

Ecological Applications

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Globally, mangrove forests represents only 0.7% of world's tropical forested area but are highly threatened due to susceptibility to climate change, sea level rise, and increasing pressures from human population growth in coastal regions. Our study was carried out in the Bhitarkanika Conservation Area (BCA), the second-largest mangrove area in eastern India. We assessed total ecosystem carbon (C) stocks at four land use types representing varying degree of disturbances. Ranked in order of increasing impacts, these sites included dense mangrove forests, scrub mangroves, restored/planted mangroves, and abandoned aquaculture ponds. These impacts include both natural and/or anthropogenic disturbances causing stress, degradation, and destruction of mangroves. Mean vegetation C stocks (including both above- and belowground pools; mean ± standard error) in aquaculture, planted, scrub, and dense mangroves were 0, 7 ± 4, 65 ± 11 and 100 ± 11 Mg C/ha, respectively. Average soil C pools for aquaculture, planted, scrub, and dense mangroves were 61 ± 8, 92 ± 20, 177 ± 14, and 134 ± 17 Mg C/ha, respectively. Mangrove soils constituted largest fraction of total ecosystem C stocks at all sampled sites (aquaculture [100%], planted [90%], scrub [72%], and dense mangrove [57%]). Within BCA, the four studied land use types covered an area of ~167 km and the total ecosystem C stocks were 0.07 Tg C for aquaculture (~12 km ), 0.25 Tg C for planted/ restored mangrove (~24 km ), 2.29 teragrams (Tg) Tg C for scrub (~93 km ), and 0.89 Tg C for dense mangroves (~38 km ). Although BCA is protected under Indian wildlife protection and conservation laws, ~150 000 people inhabit this area and are directly or indirectly dependent on mangrove resources for sustenance. Estimates of C stocks of Bhitarkanika mangroves and recognition of their role as a C repository could provide an additional reason to support conservation and restoration of Bhitarkanika mangroves. Harvesting or destructive exploitation of mangroves by local communities for economic gains can potentially be minimized by enabling these communities to avail themselves of carbon offset/conservation payments under approved climate change mitigation strategies and actions.

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Section: Vegetation Biomass Mangrove Soils and Ecosystem Carbon Poolssupporting

confidence: 71%

“…, Tue et al. ). The average soil C stocks within 0–100‐cm soil depths for the studied land use types (56–111 Mg C/ha) were lower in comparison to C stocks in other mangrove forests for the same depth.…”

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confidence: 99%

Impacts of land use on Indian mangrove forest carbon stocks: Implications for conservation and management

Bhomia

MacKenzie

Murdiyarso

et al. 2016

Ecological Applications

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“…Mangroves are rapidly prograding across the actively building Ca Mau Peninsula, where there are particularly unusual tidal conditions as a consequence of the differing tidal regimes in the two seas (Phan & Hoang 1993). Despite the profuse supply of sediment, mangroves contribute a substantial organic component, even in this environment, with recent measurements indicating that mangroves in Ca Mau have sequestered more than 600 tonnes per hectare in belowground organic carbon (Tue et al 2014).…”

Section: Tidal Hydrodynamics and Hydroperiodmentioning

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Mangrove Sedimentation and Response to Relative Sea-Level Rise

Woodroffe

Rogers

McKee

et al. 2016

Annu. Rev. Mar. Sci.

386

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Mangroves occur on upper intertidal shorelines in the tropics and subtropics. Complex hydrodynamic and salinity conditions, related primarily to elevation and hydroperiod, influence mangrove distributions; this review considers how these distributions change over time. Accumulation rates of allochthonous and autochthonous sediment, both inorganic and organic, vary between and within different settings. Abundant terrigenous sediment can form dynamic mudbanks, and tides redistribute sediment, contrasting with mangrove peat in sediment-starved carbonate settings. Sediments underlying mangroves sequester carbon but also contain paleoenvironmental records of adjustments to past sea-level changes. Radiometric dating indicates long-term sedimentation, whereas measurements made using surface elevation tables and marker horizons provide shorter perspectives, indicating shallow subsurface processes of root growth and substrate autocompaction. Many tropical deltas also experience deep subsidence, which augments relative sea-level rise. The persistence of mangroves implies an ability to cope with moderately high rates of relative sea-level rise. However, many human pressures threaten mangroves, resulting in a continuing decline in their extent throughout the tropics.

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“…Others have noted the point that geomorphic condition is often qualitatively defined, and have recently sought to institute ecologically-derived classifications of geomorphic condition for mangroves globally [51]. It is possible that other indicators of tidal position (e.g., Euclidean distance from shoreline or soil salinity) would correlate better to SOC, as spatial variation in vegetation and ecosystem C stocks has been noted well within the literature [29, 36, 37, 52]. However, distance from shoreline and soil salinity are not consistently reported within the academic literature, and thus we did not incorporate them into the models of this study.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Use of Mixed Effects Models for Obtaining Low-Cost Ecosystem Carbon Stock Estimates in Mangroves of the Asia-Pacific

Bukoski

Broadhead²,

Donato

et al. 2017

PLoS ONE

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Mangroves provide extensive ecosystem services that support local livelihoods and international environmental goals, including coastal protection, biodiversity conservation and the sequestration of carbon (C). While voluntary C market projects seeking to preserve and enhance forest C stocks offer a potential means of generating finance for mangrove conservation, their implementation faces barriers due to the high costs of quantifying C stocks through field inventories. To streamline C quantification in mangrove conservation projects, we develop predictive models for (i) biomass-based C stocks, and (ii) soil-based C stocks for the mangroves of the Asia-Pacific. We compile datasets of mangrove biomass C (197 observations from 48 sites) and soil organic C (99 observations from 27 sites) to parameterize the predictive models, and use linear mixed effect models to model the expected C as a function of stand attributes. The most parsimonious biomass model predicts total biomass C stocks as a function of both basal area and the interaction between latitude and basal area, whereas the most parsimonious soil C model predicts soil C stocks as a function of the logarithmic transformations of both latitude and basal area. Random effects are specified by site for both models, which are found to explain a substantial proportion of variance within the estimation datasets and indicate significant heterogeneity across-sites within the region. The root mean square error (RMSE) of the biomass C model is approximated at 24.6 Mg/ha (18.4% of mean biomass C in the dataset), whereas the RMSE of the soil C model is estimated at 4.9 mg C/cm3 (14.1% of mean soil C). The results point to a need for standardization of forest metrics to facilitate meta-analyses, as well as provide important considerations for refining ecosystem C stock models in mangroves.

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Carbon storage of a tropical mangrove forest in Mui Ca Mau National Park, Vietnam

Cited by 100 publications

References 28 publications

Impacts of land use on Indian mangrove forest carbon stocks: Implications for conservation and management

Impacts of land use on Indian mangrove forest carbon stocks: Implications for conservation and management

Mangrove Sedimentation and Response to Relative Sea-Level Rise

The Use of Mixed Effects Models for Obtaining Low-Cost Ecosystem Carbon Stock Estimates in Mangroves of the Asia-Pacific

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