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Storage beneath mangroves

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Empirical data on mangrove carbon pools and fluxes are scarce. A field survey in the Indo-Pacific region suggests that the sediments below these remarkable trees hold exceptionally high quantities of carbon.

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Figure 1: Mangrove forest in Gazi Bay, Kenya.

STEVEN BOUILLON

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  1. Steven Bouillon is in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Kasteelpark Arenberg, 3001 Leuven, Belgium.,

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Bouillon, S. Storage beneath mangroves. Nature Geosci 4, 282–283 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo1130

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