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Storage beneath mangroves

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Empirical data on mangrove carbon pools and fluxes are scarce. A field survey in the Indo-Pacific region suggests that the sediments below these remarkable trees hold exceptionally high quantities of carbon.

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Figure 1: Mangrove forest in Gazi Bay, Kenya.

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