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Mangrove forests are packed with carbon, typically with more than 100 kilogram of carbon in just one square meter, more than in any other type of tropical forest. Even though the mangrove trees that we see do not compare in height and girth with those in upland tropical rainforests, they manage more than their share of carbon storage underground, in their vast root systems. The organic matter sequestered in the roots of these trees does not decompose quickly, and so thick layers of organic-rich peat are deposited over time, sometimes reaching several meters deep, spanning hundreds of years, and containing tons of carbon. Our goal in this project was to measure how much carbon is stored in the mangrove peat in the forests near the Bay of La Paz. These data depths and carbon and nitrogen contents of sedimentary layers in eight forests near La Paz, BCS, Mexico, sampled in July and August 2014, as well as information on the areal extent and location of each mangrove site. We sampled forests from a range of sizes (0.02 km^2 to 0.96 km^2), and in both the water's edge, or fringe, and the land's edge, or hinterland. The results show the great depth and large carbon stores of mangrove peat deposits in some forests in the southern Gulf of California and the considerable variation in the quantity of peat from one local forest to another. Research Data Curation Program, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/rdcp) Costa, Matthew T.; Ezcurra, Paula; Aburto-Oropeza, Octavio (2018). Mangrove carbon storage in the Gulf of California. In dataMares: Ecosystem Dynamics. UC San Diego Library Digital Collections. https://doi.org/10.6075/J0668BDX The data file was released publicly on 2020-01-24. Inquiries should be directed to Matthew T. Costa (mtcosta@ucsd.edu).
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Carbon sequestration Mangrove Blue carbon La Paz Bay (Mexico) Baja California Sur (Mexico)
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