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

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Kauffman, J. Boone, Medina, Israel, Gamboa, Julieta N., Torres, Olmo, Caamal, Juan P., Reza, Miriam, Herrera-Silveira, Jorge A., and Adame, Maria Fernanda

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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...

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the following: a) tall mangroves with a mean height .5 m, which can be associated with fresh water