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Carbon sinks in mangroves and their implications to carbon budget of tropical coastal ecosystems [1]

Nearly 50% of terrigenous materials delivered to the world's oceans are delivered through just twenty-one major river systems. These river-dominated coastal margins (including estuarine and shelf ecosystems) are thus important both to the regional enhancement of productivity and to the global flux of C that is observed in land-margin ecosystems. The tropical regions of the biosphere are the most biogeochemically active coastal regions and represent potentially important sinks of C in the biosphere.

Publication Date: 
01/01/1992
R. R. Twilley [2], R. H. Chen [3], T. Hargis [4]
Water [5], Water Air & Soil Pollution [6]
64
1-2
265-288
Tags:
Mangroves [7], Carbon Sinks [8], Ecosystems [9], Carbon Dioxide [10], Wetlands [11], Biomass [12], Mexico [13], United States Of America (US) [14], Carbon Sequestration [15], Fiji [16], Samoa Island [17], Hydrology [18], Rivers [19], Gulf Of Mexico [20]

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[2] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/r-r-twilley
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/r-h-chen
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/t-hargis
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/journal/water
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/journal/water-air-soil-pollution
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/mangroves
[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/carbon-sinks
[9] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/ecosystems
[10] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/carbon-dioxide
[11] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/wetlands
[12] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/biomass
[13] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/mexico
[14] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/united-states-america-us
[15] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/carbon-sequestration
[16] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/fiji
[17] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/samoa-island
[18] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/hydrology
[19] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/rivers
[20] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/gulf-mexico