Scaling mangrove aboveground biomass from site-level to continental-scale

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 286-298

  Rovai, A S ^a   Riul, P ^b   Twilley, R R ^c   Castaneda Moya E ^c   Rivera Monroy, V H ^c   Williams, A A ^c   Simard, M ^d   Cifuentes Jara, M ^e   Lewis, R R ^f   Crooks, S ^g   Horta, P A ^a   Schaeffer Novelli, Y ^h   Cintron G ⁱ   Pozo Cajas, M ^j   Pagliosa, P R ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SANTA CATARINA   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARAÍBA   (Brazil)

^c LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e CATIE   (Costa Rica)

^f Lewis Environmental Services Inc   (United States)

^g Environmental Sciences Associates   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

ⁱ U S FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE   (United States)

^j ESCUELA SUPERIOR POLITÉCNICA DEL LITORAL   (Ecuador)

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Author keywords

Allometric models; Carbon stock; Climate change; Coastal management policies; Macroecology; Mangrove forest structure; Neotropics

Indexed keywords

ABOVEGROUND BIOMASS; ALLOMETRY; CARBON FLUX; CLIMATE CHANGE; COASTAL ZONE MANAGEMENT; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECT; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; MACROECOLOGY; MANGROVE; NEARCTIC REGION; NEOTROPICAL REGION;

EID: 84959075871     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: 14668238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/geb.12409     Document Type: Article

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