Mangrove ecosystems provide critical goods and ecosystem services to coastal
communities and contribute to climate change mitigation. Over four decades, remote …

Blue carbon (BC) ecosystems are an important coastal resource, as they provide a range of
goods and services to the environment. They play a vital role in the global carbon cycle by …

The mangrove forests of northeast Hainan Island are the most species diverse forests in
China and consist of the Dongzhai National Nature Reserve and the Qinglan Provincial …

Accurate measuring, mapping, and monitoring of mangrove forests support the sustainable
management of mangrove blue carbon in the Asia-Pacific. Remote sensing coupled with …

Carbon monitoring is critical for the reporting and verification of carbon stocks and change.
Remote sensing is a tool increasingly used to estimate the spatial heterogeneity, extent and …

Prokaryotic communities play key roles in biogeochemical transformation and cycling of
nutrients in the productive mangrove ecosystem. In this study, the vertical distribution of …

Hainan Island is the second-largest island in China and has the most species-diverse
mangrove forests in the country. To date, the height and aboveground ground biomass …

Mangrove forest coastal ecosystems contain significant amount of carbon stocks and
contribute to approximately 15% of the total carbon sequestered in ocean sediments. The …

Mangrove forests are important ecosystems in the coastal intertidal zone, but China's
mangroves have experienced a large reduction in area from the 1950s, and the remaining …

Bay areas are special ecological transition zones where land and sea meet, and the
ecological health of the region is an essential foundation for sustainable development …