Carbon stock in the Sundarbans mangrove forest: spatial variations in vegetation types and salinity zones

Wetlands Ecology and Management

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 269-283

  Mizanur Rahman, Md ^a   Nabiul Islam Khan, Md ^a   Fazlul Hoque, A K ^a   Ahmed, Imran ^b  

^a KHULNA UNIVERSITY   (Bangladesh)

^b Bangladesh Forest Department   (Bangladesh)

Author keywords

Aboveground carbon; Belowground carbon; Carbon sequestration; Ecosystem carbon; REDD+; Vegetation functional attributes

Indexed keywords

CARBON SEQUESTRATION; DOMINANCE; MANGROVE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SALINITY; SPATIAL VARIATION; VEGETATION TYPE;

SUNDARBANS;

HERITIERA FOMES; RHIZOPHORACEAE;

EID: 85028169471     PISSN: 09234861     EISSN: 15729834     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11273-014-9379-x     Document Type: Article

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