Mangrove forests store high densities of carbon across the tropical urban landscape of Singapore

Urban Ecosystems

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 795-810

  Friess, Daniel A ^a   Richards, Daniel R ^a   Phang, Valerie X H ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Above ground biomass; Blue carbon; Carbon emissions; Remote sensing; Soil carbon

Indexed keywords

EID: 84946866586     PISSN: 10838155     EISSN: 15731642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11252-015-0511-3     Document Type: Article

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