The Relationships among Community Type, Peat Layer Thickness, Belowground Carbon Storage and Habitat Age of Mangrove Forests in Pohnpei Island, Micronesia
Read full paper at: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=53298#.VLydgcnQrzE Author(s) Kiyoshi Fujimoto 1 , Yukira Mochida 2 , Takao Kikuchi 2 , Ryuichi Tabuchi 3 , Yasumasa Hirata 3 , Saimon Lihpai 4 Affiliation(s) 1 Faculty of Policy Studies, Nanzan University, Seto, Japan . 2 Graduate School of Environmental and Information Sciences, Yokohama National University, Yokohama, Japan . 3 Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute, Tsukuba, Japan . 4 Division of Forestry and Marine Enforcement, Department of Land & Natural Resources, Pohnpei State Government, Kolonia, The Federated States of Micronesia . ABSTRACT This paper quantifies the relationships among community type, peat layer thickness and habitat age of the mangrove forests in Pohnpei Island, Micronesia and provides a discussion concerning the primary succession and the belowground carbon storage of the main mangrove community types. ...