Mangrove is One of The Richest Forest Carbon in The Tropics

There are mangrove forests along the shoreline in the tropics, and supporting a wide range of ecosystem services, including fisheries production and nutrient cycles. But the mangrove forest area has decreased to 30-50% in the past half century is due to coastal development, expansion of farms and logging berlebihan.1-4 amount of carbon emissions as a result of mangrove loss is still unclear, in part because of the lack of data large scale of the amount of carbon stored in these ecosystems, particularly under permukaan.5 In this study we quantify the carbon storage in mangrove ecosystem as a whole by measuring tree and dead wood biomass, soil carbon content and soil depth in 25 mangrove forests along the Indo-Pacific region, which stretches as wide as 30 ° latitude and along the 73 ° longitude, where mangrove is very broad and beragam.4,6 The available data indicate that the mangrove is one of the richest forest carbon in the tropics, which contain about 1023 Mg of carbon per hectare. Soil with a high organic content have a depth between 0.5 m up to more than 3 m and is 49 ?? 98% carbon stored in these ecosystems. By combining our data with other information that has been published, we estimate that mangrove deforestation causing emissions by 0,02- 0.12 Pg C per year, which equates to approximately 10% of emissions from deforestation globally, although the extent of only 0.7% of all tropical forest area.