A comparison of soil carbon stocks of intact and restored mangrove forests in Northern Vietnam

• Main Authors: Hong Tinh, Pham, Thi Hong Hanh, Nguyen, Van Thanh, Vo, Sy Tuan, Mai, Van Quang, Pham, Sharma, Sahadev, MacKenzie, Richard A.
• Format: Article
• Published: MDPI 2020
• Subjects: GE Environmental Sciences
• Online Access: http://eprints.um.edu.my/36644/
• Institution: Universiti Malaya

Background and Objectives:In northern Vietnam, nearly 37,100 hectares of mangroves were lost from 1964-1997 due to unsustainable harvest and deforestation for the creation of shrimp aquaculture ponds. To offset these losses, efforts in the late 1990s have resulted in thousands of hectares of mangrov...