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Restored mangrove forests could act as important carbon stores, per study examining Vietnamese mangrove carbon since 1900, but they might not have “normal” ecological function

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Restored mangrove forests could act as important carbon stores, per study examining Vietnamese mangrove carbon since 1900, but they might not have “normal” ecological function

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Sediment coring in old-forest mangrove within an intermediate-intensity shrimp farm pond in the Red River delta, northern Vietnam.

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Credit: Heidi Burdett (CC-BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Restored mangrove forests could act as important carbon stores, per study examining Vietnamese mangrove carbon since 1900, but they might not have “normal” ecological function

 

In your coverage please use this URL to provide access to the freely available article in PLOS Sustainability and Transformation: https://plos.io/3HPdSfr

Article title: Land use change drives decadal-scale persistence of sediment organic carbon storage of restored mangrove

Author countries: Sweden, China, Vietnam, United Kingdom

Funding: This work was supported by the Global Challenges Research Fund to HLB; and Swedish Research Council (#2023-05759) to HLB and NTKC. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.

Journal

PLOS Sustainability and Transformation

DOI

10.1371/journal.pstr.0000197

Method of Research

Observational study

Subject of Research

Not applicable

COI Statement

Competing interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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