Forests | |
Biomass and Carbon Stocks of Sofala Bay Mangrove Forests | |
Almeida A. Sitoe2  Luís Júnior Comissário Mandlate1  | |
[1] Course of Forest Engineer, Agriculture Division, Higher Polytechnic Institute of Gaza, Chókwè, Mozambique; E-Mail:;Department of Forestry, Faculty of Agronomy and Forestry, Eduardo Mondlane University, P.O. Box 257, Maputo, Mozambique; E-Mail: | |
关键词: mangrove forest; carbon storage; Sofala Bay; Mozambique; | |
DOI : 10.3390/f5081967 | |
来源: mdpi | |
【 摘 要 】
Mangroves could be key ecosystems in strategies addressing the mitigation of climate changes through carbon storage. However, little is known regarding the carbon stocks of these ecosystems, particularly below-ground. This study was carried out in the mangrove forests of Sofala Bay, Central Mozambique, with the aim of quantifying carbon stocks of live and dead plant and soil components. The methods followed the procedures developed by the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) for mangrove forests. In this study, we developed a general allometric equation to estimate individual tree biomass and soil carbon content (up to 100 cm depth). We estimated the carbon in the whole mangrove ecosystem of Sofala Bay, including dead trees, wood debris, herbaceous, pneumatophores, litter and soil. The general allometric equation for live trees derived was [Above-ground tree dry weight (kg) = 3.254 × exp(0.065 × DBH)], root mean square error (RMSE = 4.244), and coefficient of determination (
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