Carbon Stocks of Tropical Coastal Wetlands within the Karstic Landscape of the Mexican Caribbean

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Adame, Maria Fernanda ^a,b   Kauffman, J Boone ^c,d   Medina, Israel ^a   Gamboa, Julieta N ^a   Torres, Olmo ^e   Caamal, Juan P ^a   Reza, Miriam ^f   Herrera Silveira, Jorge A ^a  

^a DEPARTAMENTO DE FÍSICA APLICADA   (Mexico)

^b GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL FORESTRY RESEARCH   (Indonesia)

^e Colectividad Razonatura AC ^*  (Mexico)

^f Amigos de Sian K'aan ^*  (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; NITROGEN; PHOSPHORUS;

ARTICLE; BIOMASS; BIOSPHERE; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CARBON STOCK; COASTAL WATERS; ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETERS; FOREST; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; LANDSCAPE; MANGROVE; MARSH; MEXICO; NONHUMAN; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SALINITY; SHRUB; SOIL; SOIL ANALYSIS; TREE; TROPICS; VEGETATION; WETLAND;

BIOMASS; CARBON; CARIBBEAN REGION; GEOLOGICAL PROCESSES; MEXICO; POACEAE; SALINITY; SOIL; TREES; TROPICAL CLIMATE; WETLANDS; WOOD;

EID: 84874010515     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0056569     Document Type: Article

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