Changes in carbon pool and stand structure of a native subtropical mangrove forest after inter-planting with exotic species Sonneratia apetala

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Lu, Weizhi ^a,b   Yang, Shengchang ^a   Chen, Luzhen ^a   Wang, Wenqing ^a   Du, Xiaona ^a   Wang, Canmou ^a   Ma, Yan ^a   Lin, Guangxuan ^c   Lin, Guanghui ^b  

^a XIAMEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c Huguang Township   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEGICERAS CORNICULATUM; AGRICULTURAL PARAMETERS; AGRICULTURAL PROCEDURES; ARTICLE; BIOMASS; CARBON CYCLING; CARBON NITROGEN RATIO; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CARBON STORAGE; CHINA; INTERPLANTING; MANGROVE; NONHUMAN; PLANT DENSITY; PLANT DIAMETER; PLANT HEIGHT; PLANT LITTER; PLANT STAND STRUCTURE; SONNERATIA APETALA; CHEMISTRY; ECOSYSTEM; FOREST; GEOGRAPHY; RHIZOPHORACEAE; SEDIMENT; SOIL; TREE; VASCULAR PLANT; WETLAND;

CARBON; SOIL;

BIOMASS; CARBON; CHINA; ECOSYSTEM; FORESTS; GEOGRAPHY; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; RHIZOPHORACEAE; SOIL; TRACHEOBIONTA; TREES; WETLANDS;

EID: 84897511438     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0091238     Document Type: Article

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