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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/)




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.

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