- Title
- Fine-scale spatial variability in organic carbon in a temperate mangrove forest : implications for estimating carbon stocks in blue carbon ecosystems
- Creator
- Hu, Yang; Fest, Benedikt; Swearer, Stephen; Arndt, Stefan
- Date
- 2021
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/193790
- Identifier
- vital:18242
- Identifier
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecss.2021.107469
- Identifier
- ISSN:0272-7714 (ISSN)
- Abstract
- Mangrove ecosystems have the potential to store large amounts of carbon but detailed studies on the fine scale spatial variability of biomass components and sediment organic carbon (SOC) and their relationships are lacking. Here we investigated the fine-scale spatial variation of SOC, aboveground and belowground biomass using systematic grid sampling in a temperate Avicennia marina ((Forssk.) Vierh) forest in Australia. We estimated aboveground biomass in a 9 × 9 sampling grid within a 0.16 ha plot and measured SOC, fine root biomass and necromass down to 1 m at 81 sampling points in an A. marina forest in Western Port Bay near Melbourne, Australia. We detected large differences in all measured carbon pools. SOC increased from low to high intertidal position but showed no consistent trend with depth. Aboveground biomass carbon was highly variable (mean 84 ± 56 Mg C ha
- Publisher
- Academic Press
- Relation
- Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science Vol. 259, no. (2021), p.
- Rights
- All metadata describing materials held in, or linked to, the repository is freely available under a CC0 licence
- Rights
- Copyright © 2021 Elsevier Ltd
- Subject
- MD Multidisciplinary; Avicennia marina; Biomass; Blue carbon; Soil organic carbon; Spatial sampling
- Reviewed
- Funder
- The National Centre for Coasts and Climate (NCCC) is funded through the Earth Systems and Climate Change Hub by the Australian Government's National Environmental Science Program (NESP) .
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