Biomass and carbon stocks of Sofala Bay mangrove forests

Forests

Volumn 5, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 1967-1981

  Sitoe, Almeida A ^a   Mandlate, Luís Júnior Comissário ^b   Guedes, Benard S ^a  

^a EDUARDO MONDLANE UNIVERSITY   (Mozambique)

^b Course of Forest Engineer Agriculture Division Higher Polytechnic Institute of Gaza ^*  (Mozambique)

Author keywords

Carbon storage; Mangrove forest; Mozambique; Sofala bay

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DEFORESTATION; DEGRADATION; ECOSYSTEMS; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; PLANTS (BOTANY); SOILS;

ALLOMETRIC EQUATIONS; CARBON STORAGE; COEFFICIENT OF DETERMINATION; MANGROVE ECOSYSTEMS; MANGROVE FOREST; MOZAMBIQUE; ROOT MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; SOFALA BAY;

CARBON;

ALLOMETRY; BIOMASS; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; DEFORESTATION; ECOSYSTEM RESPONSE; MANGROVE; REFORESTATION; SOIL CARBON; SPECIES CONSERVATION;

CARBON; DEFORESTATION; DEGRADATION; ECOSYSTEMS; MANGROVE; PLANTS; SEASONAL VARIATION; SOIL;

MOZAMBIQUE; SOFALA;

RHIZOPHORACEAE;

EID: 84930679507     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19994907     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/f5081967     Document Type: Article

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