Establishing rates of carbon sequestration in mangroves from an earthquake uplift event

• Main Authors: Salmo, Severino G, III, Malapit, Vanessa, Garcia, Maria Carmela A, Pagkalinawan, Homer M
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2019
• Subjects: Blue Carbon; mangrove; earthquake; uplift; mangrove conservation; The Philippines; Ecology and Evolutionary Biology; Environmental Sciences
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/es-faculty-pubs/30; https://archium.ateneo.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1028&context=es-faculty-pubs
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

We assessed the carbon stocks (CS) in mangroves that developed after a magnitude 7.1 earthquake in Silonay, Oriental Mindoro, south Luzon, The Philippines in November 1994. The earthquake resulted in a 50 cm uplift of sediment that provided new habitat within the upper intertidal zone which mangrove...