Mangroves as a major source of soil carbon storage in adjacent seagrass meadows

Scientific Reports

Volumn 7, Issue , 2017, Pages

  Chen, Guangcheng ^a   Azkab, Muhammad Husni ^b   Chmura, Gail L ^c   Chen, Shunyang ^a   Sastrosuwondo, Pramudji ^b   Ma, Zhiyuan ^a   Dharmawan, I Wayan Eka ^b   Yin, Xijie ^a   Chen, Bin ^a  

^a Key Laboratory of Marine Genetic Resources of Fujian Province   (China)

^b INDONESIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCES   (Indonesia)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CARBON CYCLE; CHEMISTRY; ECOSYSTEM; GRASSLAND; INDONESIA; SOIL; WETLAND;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CARBON; CARBON CYCLE; ECOSYSTEM; GRASSLAND; INDONESIA; SOIL; WETLANDS;

EID: 85012039908     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep42406     Document Type: Article

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