Carbon storage in the seagrass meadows of Gazi Bay, Kenya

PLoS ONE

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2017, Pages

  Githaiga, Michael N ^a,b   Kairo, James G ^a   Gilpin, Linda ^b   Huxham, Mark ^b  

^a KENYA MARINE AND FISHERIES RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Kenya)

^b EDINBURGH NAPIER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAGNESIUM CARBONATE; ORGANIC CARBON; ORGANIC MATTER; CARBON;

AFRICAN; ARTICLE; BIOMASS; BULK DENSITY; CANOPY; CANOPY HEIGHT; CARBON STORAGE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYMODOCEA ROTUNDATA; CYMODOCEA SERRULATA; DYNAMICS; ENHALUS ACOROIDES; HALODULE UNIVERVIS; HALODULE WRIGHTII; HALOPHILA MINOR; HALOPHILA OVALIS; HALOPHILA STIPULACEAE; KENYA; NONHUMAN; PLANT GROWTH; SEAGRASS; SEDIMENT; SHOOT DENSITY; SHOOT GROWTH; SHOOT HEIGHT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SYRINGODIUM ISOETIFOLIUM; THALASSIA HEMPRICHII; THALASSODENDRON CILIATUM; VEGETATION; ZOSTERA CAPENSIS; ANALYSIS; BAY; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; GRASSLAND;

BAYS; BIOMASS; CARBON; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; GRASSLAND; KENYA;

EID: 85018863139     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0177001     Document Type: Article

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