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ScienceDaily: Researchers found that short, stunted mangroves living along the coastal desert of Baja California store up to five times more carbon below ground than their lush, tropical counterparts. The new study led by researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego estimates that coastal desert mangroves, which only account for one percent of the land area, store nearly 30 percent of the region's belowground carbon.
"Mangroves represent a thin layer between ocean and land, and yet we......
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Desert mangroves are major source of carbon storage, study shows
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on March 29th, 2016
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