Rapid peat development beneath created, maturing mangrove forests: ecosystem changes across a 25-yr chronosequence.

ABSTRACT: Mangrove forests are among the world's most productive and carbon-rich ecosystems. Despite growing understanding of factors controlling mangrove forest soil carbon stocks, there is a need to advance understanding of the speed of peat development beneath maturing mangrove forests, especially in created and restored mangrove forests that are intended to compensate for ecosystem functions lost during mangrove forest conversion to other land uses. To better quantify the rate of soil organic matter development beneath created, maturing mangrove forests, we measured ecosystem changes across a 25-yr chronosequence. We compared ecosystem properties in created, maturing mangrove forests to adjacent natural mangrove forests. We also quantified site-specific changes that occurred between 2010 and 201

SUBMITTER: Osland MJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7423248 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature