The assessment of mangrove biomass and carbon in West Africa: a spatially explicit analytical framework

Wetlands Ecology and Management

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 153-171

  Tang, Wenwu ^a   Feng, Wenpeng ^a   Jia, Meijuan ^a   Shi, Jiyang ^a   Zuo, Huifang ^a   Trettin, Carl C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE   (United States)

^b Center for Forested Wetlands Research   (United States)

Author keywords

Canopy height; Forest inventory; Mangrove biomass; West Africa

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL FRAMEWORK; ASSESSMENT METHOD; BIOMASS; CANOPY; CARBON; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CARBON SINK; CONSERVATION STATUS; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; FOREST INVENTORY; ICESAT; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; SHUTTLE RADAR TOPOGRAPHY MISSION; SOFTWARE; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPATIAL DATA;

CAMEROON; NIGERIA;

RHIZOPHORACEAE;

EID: 84949642256     PISSN: 09234861     EISSN: 15729834     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11273-015-9474-7     Document Type: Article

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