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Carbon Stocks of Tropical Coastal Wetlands within the Karstic Landscape of the Mexican Caribbean Public Deposited

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  • Coastal wetlands can have exceptionally large carbon (C) stocks and their protection and restoration would constitute an effective mitigation strategy to climate change. Inclusion of coastal ecosystems in mitigation strategies requires quantification of carbon stocks in order to calculate emissions or sequestration through time. In this study, we quantified the ecosystem C stocks of coastal wetlands of the Sian Ka'an Biosphere Reserve (SKBR) in the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico. We stratified the SKBR into different vegetation types (tall, medium and dwarf mangroves, and marshes), and examined relationships of environmental variables with C stocks. At nine sites within SKBR, we quantified ecosystem C stocks through measurement of above and belowground biomass, downed wood, and soil C. Additionally, we measured nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) from the soil and interstitial salinity. Tall mangroves had the highest C stocks (987 ± 338 Mg ha⁻¹) followed by medium mangroves (623 ± 41 Mg ha⁻¹), dwarf mangroves (381 ± 52 Mg ha⁻¹) and marshes (177 ±73 Mg ha⁻¹). At all sites, soil C comprised the majority of the ecosystem C stocks (78-99%). Highest C stocks were measured in soils that were relatively low in salinity, high in P and low in N: P, suggesting that P limits C sequestration and accumulation potential. In this karstic area, coastal wetlands, especially mangroves, are important C stocks. At the landscape scale, the coastal wetlands of Sian Ka'an covering approximate to ≈172,176 ha may store 43.2 to 58.0 million Mg of C.
  • Keywords: Ignition, Sea level, Mangrove forests, Enrichment, Organic matter, Florida, Biomass, Sediments, Nutrient dynamics, Brazilian Amazon
  • Keywords: Ignition, Sea level, Mangrove forests, Enrichment, Organic matter, Florida, Biomass, Sediments, Nutrient dynamics, Brazilian Amazon
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  • Adame, M. F., Kauffman, J. B., Medina, I., Gamboa, J. N., Torres, O., Caamal, J. P., . . . Herrera-Silveira, J. A. (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
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  • Funding for the study was provided by the US Agency for International Development (USAID/Mexico) as part of a workshop on quantification of wetland carbon stocks, http://www.usaid.gov/, through USFS http://www.fs.fed.us/ and Fondo Mexicano para la Conservacion http://fmcn.org/. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
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