Carbon budgets for Caribbean mangrove forests of varying structure and with phosphorus enrichment

Forests

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 3528-3546

  Lovelock, Catherine E ^a   Simpson, Lorae T ^b,c   Duckett, Lisa J ^b   Feller, Ilka C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b SMITHSONIAN ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c SMITHSONIAN MARINE STATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Belize; Carbon burial; Fertilization; Respiration; Rhizophora mangle

Indexed keywords

BUDGET CONTROL; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEMS; PHOSPHORUS; PRODUCTIVITY; SOILS;

BELIZE; FERTILIZATION; GROSS PRIMARY PRODUCTION; NET ECOSYSTEM PRODUCTION; NUTRIENT ENRICHMENTS; PHOSPHORUS ENRICHMENT; RESPIRATION; RHIZOPHORA MANGLE;

FORESTRY;

ABOVEGROUND BIOMASS; CARBON BUDGET; CARBON ISOTOPE; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; FERTILIZATION (REPRODUCTION); FOREST DYNAMICS; MANGROVE; NET ECOSYSTEM PRODUCTION; NUTRIENT ENRICHMENT; PHOSPHORUS; SOIL RESPIRATION;

BELIZE [CENTRAL AMERICA]; STANN CREEK; TWIN CAYS;

RHIZOPHORA MANGLE; RHIZOPHORACEAE;

EID: 84946406173     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19994907     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/f6103528     Document Type: Article

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