Procedures for quantification of belowground biomass of three mangrove tree species

Wetlands Ecology and Management

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 749-764

  Njana, Marco Andrew ^a   Eid, Tron ^b   Zahabu, Eliakimu ^a   Malimbwi, Rogers ^a  

^a SOKOINE UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE   (Tanzania)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

Author keywords

Avicenia Rhizophora Sonneratia; Root biomass; Root sampling; Tanzania

Indexed keywords

BELOWGROUND BIOMASS; CANOPY ARCHITECTURE; MANGROVE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; ROOT; SAMPLING; WEIGHT;

TANZANIA;

AVICENNIA MARINA; RHIZOPHORA MUCRONATA; RHIZOPHORACEAE; SONNERATIA; SONNERATIA ALBA;

EID: 84940449249     PISSN: 09234861     EISSN: 15729834     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11273-015-9417-3     Document Type: Article

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