Mangrove Forest Carbon Trapping

11/18/2019

Mangrove Forest Carbon Trapping

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Mangroves

A mangrove is a shrub or small evergreen tree that grows in coastal saline or brackish water.

They live on Saltwater and take in tons of Carbon Dioxide

They save the coastline from erosion

http://www.jeremiahjamescreates.com/mangrove-ecosystem-illustration/

https://blog.nature.org/science/2013/10/11/new-science-mangrove-forests-carbon-store-map/

Here is a Map of Where they Live

https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/47427/mapping-mangroves-by-satellite

Blue Carbon

Blue carbon is the term for carbon captured by the world's ocean and coastal ecosystems.

Blue Carbon is along the coast

https://reefresilience.org/blue-carbon/blue-carbon-introduction/

https://www.resilience.org/stories/2018-11-28/blue-carbon-an-effective-climate-mitigation-and-drawdown

Sea grasses, mangroves, and salt marshes along our coast "capture and hold" carbon, acting as something called a carbon sink.

Carbon SInk

http://www.oceanhealthindex.org/methodology/components/mangroves-condition

http://mangrovesforfiji.com/mangroves/carbon-sequestration/

https://ecoviva.org/7-reasons-mangroves-matter/

Biosequesters

Mangrove forests are biosequesters.

Biosequestration is the process of capturing and storing carbon in living organisms such as plants and algae

https://www.jagranjosh.com/general-knowledge/biological-sequestration-biosequestration-concept-importance-and-need-1511521543-1

https://www.greenfleet.com.au/ARCHIVE/Biosequestration

Sink and SOurce

Biomass is Kept Underground

https://reefresilience.org/blue-carbon/blue-carbon-introduction/

https://blog.nature.org/science/2013/10/11/new-science-mangrove-forests-carbon-

PROTECTING the mangrove forest Protects The World

https://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/sci0030lg.jpeg

Mangrove Destruction

https://www.amnh.org/explore/videos/biodiversity/mangroves-the-roots-of-the-sea/mangrove-threats-and-solutions

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