Nature Communications (Jun 2021)

Co-benefits of protecting mangroves for biodiversity conservation and carbon storage

  • Md Mizanur Rahman,
  • Martin Zimmer,
  • Imran Ahmed,
  • Daniel Donato,
  • Mamoru Kanzaki,
  • Ming Xu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-24207-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Conserving mangrove biodiversity has numerous co-benefits, including climate change-mitigation. Here the authors demonstrate that blue carbon storage in mangroves can be best sustained by combining site-specific dominant species with other species with contrasting functional traits.