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Sci Rep. 2017 Apr 21;7(1):1030. doi: 10.1038/s41598-017-01224-2.

Created mangrove wetlands store belowground carbon and surface elevation change enables them to adjust to sea-level rise.

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Ken W Krauss, Nicole Cormier, Michael J Osland, Matthew L Kirwan, Camille L Stagg, Janet A Nestlerode, Marc J Russell, Andrew S From, Amanda C Spivak, Darrin D Dantin, James E Harvey, Alejandro E Almario

Affiliations

  1. U.S. Geological Survey, Wetland and Aquatic Research Center, 700 Cajundome Blvd., Lafayette, Louisiana, 70506, USA. [email protected].
  2. U.S. Geological Survey, Wetland and Aquatic Research Center, 700 Cajundome Blvd., Lafayette, Louisiana, 70506, USA.
  3. Virginia Institute of Marine Science, College of William and Mary, Gloucester Point, Virginia, 23062, USA.
  4. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Gulf Ecology Division, 1 Sabine Island Drive, Gulf Breeze, Florida, 32561, USA.
  5. Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry, 266 Woods Hole Rd., Woods Hole, Massachusetts, 02543, USA.

PMID: 28432292 PMCID: PMC5430729 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-01224-2

Abstract

Mangrove wetlands provide ecosystem services for millions of people, most prominently by providing storm protection, food and fodder. Mangrove wetlands are also valuable ecosystems for promoting carbon (C) sequestration and storage. However, loss of mangrove wetlands and these ecosystem services are a global concern, prompting the restoration and creation of mangrove wetlands as a potential solution. Here, we investigate soil surface elevation change, and its components, in created mangrove wetlands over a 25 year developmental gradient. All created mangrove wetlands were exceeding current relative sea-level rise rates (2.6 mm yr

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