Are global mangrove carbon stocks driven by rainfall?

Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences

Volumn 121, Issue 10, 2016, Pages 2600-2609

  Sanders, Christian J ^a   Maher, Damien T ^a   Tait, Douglas R ^a   Williams, Darren ^a   Holloway, Ceylena ^a   Sippo, James Z ^a   Santos, Isaac R ^a  

^a SOUTHERN CROSS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

aboveground biomass; climate change; mangrove carbon pool; precipitation; soil carbon density

Indexed keywords

CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE; LATITUDINAL GRADIENT; MANGROVE; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; ORGANIC CARBON; ORGANIC MATTER; PHYTOMASS; POREWATER; RAINFALL; SOIL CARBON; SUBTROPICAL REGION;

INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN (TROPICAL); PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (TROPICAL);

EID: 84991442281     PISSN: 21698953     EISSN: 21698961     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2016JG003510     Document Type: Article

References (51)

1. Adame, M. F., J. B. Kauffman, I. Medina, J. N. Gamboa, O. Torres, J. P. Caamal, M. Reza, and J. A. Herrera-Silveira (2013), Carbon stocks of tropical coastal wetlands within the karstic landscape of the Mexican Caribbean, PLoS One, 8(2), e56569, doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0056569.
2. Adame, M. F., N. S. Santini, C. Tovilla, A. Vázquez-Lule, L. Castro, and M. Guevara (2015), Carbon stocks and soil sequestration rates of tropical riverine wetlands, Biogeosciences, 12(12), 3805–3818, doi:10.5194/bg-12-3805-2015.
3. Alongi, D. M. (2008), Mangrove forests: Resilience, protection from tsunamis, and responses to global climate change, Estuarine Coastal Shelf Sci., 76(1), 1–13.
4. Alongi, D. M. (2013), Mangrove-microbe-soil relations, in Interactions Between Macro- and Microorganisms in Marine Sediments, edited by E. Kristensen, R. R. Haese, and J. E. Kostka, pp. 85–103, AGU, Washington, D. C., doi:10.1029/CE060p0085.
5. Alongi, D. M. (2014), Carbon cycling and storage in mangrove forests, Annu. Rev. Mar. Sci., 6, 195–219.
6. Bianchi, T. S., M. A. Allison, J. Zhao, X. Li, R. S. Comeaux, R. A. Feagin, and R. W. Kulawardhana (2013), Historical reconstruction of mangrove expansion in the Gulf of Mexico: Linking climate change with carbon sequestration in coastal wetlands, Estuarine Coastal Shelf Sci., 119, 7–16.
7. Breithaupt, J. L., J. M. Smoak, T. J. Smith, C. J. Sanders, and A. Hoare (2012), Organic carbon burial rates in mangrove sediments: Strengthening the global budget, Global Biogeochem. Cycles, 26, GB3011, doi:10.1029/2012GB004375.
8. Breithaupt, J. L., J. M. Smoak, T. J. Smith, and C. J. Sanders (2014), Temporal variability of carbon and nutrient burial, sediment accretion, and mass accumulation over the past century in a carbonate platform mangrove forest of the Florida Everglades, J. Geophys. Res. Biogeosci., 119, 2032–2048, doi:10.1002/2014JG002715.
9. Call, M., et al. (2015), Spatial and temporal variability of carbon dioxide and methane fluxes over semi-diurnal and spring-neap-spring timescales in a mangrove creek, Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 150, 211–225.
10. Cavanaugh, K. C., J. R. Kellner, A. J. Forde, D. S. Gruner, J. D. Parker, W. Rodriguez, and I. C. Feller (2014), Poleward expansion of mangroves is a threshold response to decreased frequency of extreme cold events, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A., 111(2), 723–727, doi:10.1073/pnas.1315800111.
11. Davidson, E. A., and I. A. Janssens (2006), Temperature sensitivity of soil carbon decomposition and feedbacks to climate change, Nature, 440(7081), 165–173, doi:10.1038/nature04514.
12. Donato, D. C., J. B. Kauffman, D. Murdiyarso, S. Kurnianto, M. Stidham, and M. Kanninen (2011), Mangroves among the most carbon-rich forests in the tropics, Nat. Geosci., 4(5), 293–297.
13. Ewel, K. C., J. A. Bourgeois, T. G. Cole, and S. Zheng (1998), Variation in environmental characteristics and vegetation in high-rainfall mangrove forests, Kosrae, Micronesia, Global Ecol. Biogeogr. Lett., 7(1), 49–56.
14. Ezcurra, P., E. Ezcurra, P. P. Garcillán, M. T. Costa, and O. Aburto-Oropeza (2016), Coastal landforms and accumulation of mangrove peat increase carbon sequestration and storage, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A., 113(16), 4404–4409, doi:10.5061/dryad.5k0g4.
15. Giri, C., E. Ochieng, L. L. Tieszen, Z. Zhu, A. Singh, T. Loveland, J. Masek, and N. Duke (2011), Status and distribution of mangrove forests of the world using Earth observation satellite data, Global Ecol. Biogeogr., 20(1), 154–159, doi:10.1111/j.1466-8238.2010.00584.x.
16. Guerra-Santos, J. J., R. M. Cerón-Bretón, J. G. Cerón-Bretón, D. L. Damián-Hernández, R. C. Sánchez-Junco, and E. D. C. G. Carrió (2014), Estimation of the carbon pool in soil and above-ground biomass within mangrove forests in Southeast Mexico using allometric equations, J. For. Res., 25(1), 129–134, doi:10.1007/s11676-014-0437-2.
17. Howard, J., S. Hoyt, K. Isensee, M. Telszewski, and E. Pidgeon (2014), Coastal Blue Carbon: Methods for Assessing Carbon Stocks and Emissions Factors in Mangroves, Tidal Salt Marshes, and Seagrasses, Rep., Conserv. Int., Intergov. Oceanogr. Comm. of UNESCO, Arlington, Va.
18. Huang, P., S. P. Xie, K. Hu, G. Huang, and R. Huang (2013), Patterns of the seasonal response of tropical rainfall to global warming, Nat. Geosci., 6(5), 357–361, doi:10.1038/ngeo1792.
19. Hutchison, J., A. Manica, R. Swetnam, A. Balmford, and M. Spalding (2014), Predicting global patterns in mangrove forest biomass, Conserv. Lett., 7(3), 233–240, doi:10.1111/conl.12060.
20. IPCC (2003), Good Practice Guidance for Land Use, Land-Use Change, and Forestry, Rep., Inst. for Global Environ. Strat., Kanagawa, Japan.
21. IPCC (2013), Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation (SREX), Spec. Rep., 594 pp., Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge, U. K.
22. Jardine, S. L., and J. V. Siikamäki (2014), A global predictive model of carbon in mangrove soils, Environ. Res. Lett., 9(10), 104013, doi:10.1088/1748-9326/9/10/104013.
23. Jones, T. G., H. R. Ratsimba, L. Ravaoarinorotsihoarana, G. Cripps, and A. Bey (2014), Ecological variability and carbon stock estimates of mangrove ecosystems in Northwestern Madagascar, Forests, 5(1), 177–205, doi:10.3390/f5010177.
24. Kauffman, J. B., and D. C. Donato (2012), Protocols for Measurement, Monitoring and Reporting of Structure, Biomass and Carbon Stocks in Mangrove Forests, Rep., 37 pp., CIFOR, Bogor, Indonesia.
25. Kauffman, J. B., C. Heider, T. G. Cole, K. A. Dwire, and D. C. Donato (2011), Ecosystem carbon stocks of micronesian mangrove forests, Wetlands, 31(2), 343–352, doi:10.1007/s13157-011-0148-9.
26. Kelleway, J. J., N. Saintilan, P. I. Macreadie, C. G. Skilbeck, A. Zawadzki, and P. J. Ralph (2015), Seventy years of continuous encroachment substantially increases ‘blue carbon’ capacity as mangroves replace intertidal salt marshes, Global Change Biol., doi:10.1111/gcb.13158.
27. Komiyama, A., J. E. Ong, and S. Poungparn (2008), Allometry, biomass, and productivity of mangrove forests: A review, Aquat. Bot., 89(2), 128–137, doi:10.1016/j.aquabot.2007.12.006.
28. Lee, R. Y., W. P. Porubsky, I. C. Feller, K. L. McKee, and S. B. Joye (2008), Porewater biogeochemistry and soil metabolism in dwarf red mangrove habitats (Twin Cays, Belize), Biogeochemistry, 87(2), 181–198, doi:10.1007/s10533-008-9176-9.
29. Lewis, D. B., J. A. Brown, and K. L. Jimenez (2014), Effects of flooding and warming on soil organic matter mineralization in Avicennia germinans mangrove forests and Juncus roemerianus salt marshes, Estuarine Coastal Shelf Sci., 139, 11–19, doi:10.1016/j.ecss.2013.12.032.
30. Lovelock, C. E., I. C. Feller, R. Reef, and R. W. Ruess (2014), Variable effects of nutrient enrichment on soil respiration in mangrove forests, Plant Soil, 379(1–2), 135–148, doi:10.1007/s11104-014-2036-6.
31. Lovelock, C. E., M. F. Adame, V. Bennion, M. Hayes, R. Reef, N. Santini, and D. R. Cahoon (2015), Sea level and turbidity controls on mangrove soil surface elevation change, Estuarine Coastal Shelf Sci., 153, 1–9.
32. McLeod, E., G. L. Chmura, S. Bouillon, R. Salm, M. Björk, C. M. Duarte, C. E. Lovelock, W. H. Schlesinger, and B. R. Silliman (2011), A blueprint for blue carbon: Toward an improved understanding of the role of vegetated coastal habitats in sequestering CO2, Front. Ecol. Environ., 9(10), 552–560.
33. Murdiyarso, D., J. Purbopuspito, J. B. Kauffman, S. Taberima, and S. Kurnianto (2015), The potential of Indonesian mangrove forests for global climate change mitigation, Nat. Clim. Change, 5(12), 1089–1092.
34. Nguyen, T. T., L. V. Dung, M. T. Nhuan, and K. Omori (2014), Carbon storage of a tropical mangrove forest in Mui Ca Mau National Park, Vietnam, Catena, 121, 119–126.
35. Osland, M. J., N. Enwright, R. H. Day, and T. W. Doyle (2013), Winter climate change and coastal wetland foundation species: Salt marshes vs. mangrove forests in the southeastern United States, Global Change Biol., 19(5), 1482–1494.
36. Osland, M. J., N. M. Enwright, R. H. Day, C. A. Gabler, C. L. Stagg, and J. B. Grace (2016), Beyond just sea-level rise: Considering macroclimatic drivers within coastal wetland vulnerability assessments to climate change, Global Change Biol., 22(1), 1–11, doi:10.1111/gcb.13084.
37. Robertson, A. I., and D. M. Alongi (2016), Massive turnover rates of fine root detrital carbon in tropical Australian mangroves, Oecologia, 180(3), 841–851, doi:10.1007/s00442-015-3506-0.
38. Rovai, A. S., et al. (2016), Scaling mangrove aboveground biomass from site-level to continental-scale, Global Ecol. Biogeogr., 25(3), 286–298, doi:10.1111/geb.12409.
39. Saenger, P., and S. C. Snedaker (1993), Pantropical trends in mangrove above-ground biomass and annual litterfall, Oecologia, 96(3), 293–299, doi:10.1007/BF00317496.
40. Saintilan, N., and K. Rogers (2015), Woody plant encroachment of grasslands: A comparison of terrestrial and wetland settings, New Phytol., 205(3), 1062–1070, doi:10.1111/nph.13147.
41. Saintilan, N., and R. J. Williams (1999), Mangrove transgression into saltmarsh environments in south-east Australia, Global Ecol. Biogeogr., 8(2), 117–124.
42. Saintilan, N., N. C. Wilson, K. Rogers, A. Rajkaran, and K. W. Krauss (2014), Mangrove expansion and salt marsh decline at mangrove poleward limits, Global Change Biol., 20(1), 147–157, doi:10.1111/gcb.12341.
43. Sanders, C. J., J. M. Smoak, A. S. Naidu, L. M. Sanders, and S. R. Patchineelam (2010), Organic carbon burial in a mangrove forest, margin and intertidal mud flat, Estuarine Coastal Shelf Sci., 90(3), 168–172.
44. Sanders, C. J., et al. (2014), Elevated rates of organic carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus accumulation in a highly impacted mangrove wetland, Geophys. Res. Lett., 41, 2475–2480, doi:10.1002/2014GL059789.
45. Sanders, C. J., I. R. Santos, D. T. Maher, J. L. Breithaupt, J. M. Smoak, M. Ketterer, M. Call, L. Sanders, and B. D. Eyre (2016), Examining 239 + 240Pu, 210Pb and historical events to determine carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus burial in mangrove sediments of Moreton Bay, Australia, J. Environ. Radioact., 151, 623–629, doi:10.1016/j.jenvrad.2015.04.018.
46. Santini, N. S., N. Schmitz, V. Bennion, and C. E. Lovelock (2013), The anatomical basis of the link between density and mechanical strength in mangrove branches, Funct. Plant Biol., 40(4), 400–408, doi:10.1071/FP12204.
47. Scharler, U. M., et al. (2015), Variable nutrient stoichiometry (carbon:nitrogen:phosphorus) across trophic levels determines community and ecosystem properties in an oligotrophic mangrove system, Oecologia, 179(3), 863–876, doi:10.1007/s00442-015-3379-2.
48. Stringer, C. E., C. C. Trettin, S. J. Zarnoch, and W. Tang (2015), Carbon stocks of mangroves within the Zambezi River Delta, Mozambique, For. Ecol. Manage., doi:10.1016/j.foreco.2015.06.027.
49. Tan, J., C. Jakob, W. B. Rossow, and G. Tselioudis (2015), Increases in tropical rainfall driven by changes in frequency of organized deep convection, Nature, 519(7544), 451–454, doi:10.1038/nature14339.
50. Thompson, B. S., C. P. Clubbe, J. H. Primavera, D. Curnick, and H. J. Koldewey (2014), Locally assessing the economic viability of blue carbon: A case study from Panay Island, the Philippines, Ecosyst. Serv., 8, 128–140, doi:10.1016/j.ecoser.2014.03.004.
51. Wentz, F. J., L. Ricciardulli, K. Hilburn, and C. Mears (2007), How much more rain will global warming bring?, Science, 317(5835), 233–235.