Mangroves have the ability to absorb up to four times more carbon dioxide by area than upland terrestrial forest ecosystems, carbon dioxide is stored as blue Carbon in the sediment of the mangroves swamps and marshes and green carbon in the soils of the terrestrial forest floors, and that carbon sink forms the carbon pool, but the result obtained from the analysis of the sediment samples of both types of ecosystems doesn't reflect that quantity, the organic carbon of the mangroves swamps ranges from 36 to 69%, whereas, the organic carbon content of the soils of the terrestrial forest ecosystems varies from 16 to 66%, then where and how the extra carbon stored in the mangroves sediments as blue Carbon which is four times more than that of the green carbon of the forest soil?
Coastal ecoystems like mangrove, seagrass meadows or saltmarshes do sequester atmospheric carbon through primary production and deposit them in the sediments. In the days when we had the desired forest cover, vegetation did account for major percentage and little or no attention was paid to the blue carbon. Now that the vegetation cover has reduced globally, it is time to look at this option NOW seriously. While the green carbon has been responsible for the photosynthetic activity and useful produces, we may have to look at the blue carbon deposited in the sediments a little more seriously and understand it better.
Atmospheric carbon dioxide is stored as blue Carbon in the sediments of the mangroves swamps and marshes, and that is four times much more than that of the green carbon locked in the sediments of the terrestrial forest floors. Blue Carbon pools play an important role to mitigate the present day climate crisis
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