Ecuador's mangrove forest carbon stocks: A spatiotemporal analysis of living carbon holdings and their depletion since the advent of commercial aquaculture

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2015, Pages

  Hamilton, Stuart E ^a   Lovette, John ^b  

^a SALISBURY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON;

AFFORESTATION; AQUACULTURE; ARTICLE; CARBON FOOTPRINT; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; ECUADOR; FOREST; MANGROVE; MANGROVE FOREST; REFORESTATION; REMOTE SENSING; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TROPICAL RAIN FOREST; ANIMAL; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; WETLAND;

DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); RHIZOPHORACEAE;

ANIMALS; AQUACULTURE; CARBON; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); ECUADOR; SPATIO-TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; WETLANDS;

EID: 84929459668     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0118880     Document Type: Article

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