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Read  full  paper  at: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=47417#.VMijiyzQrzE Author(s)     Dipnarayan Ganguly , Raghab Ray , Natasha Majumder , Chumki Chowdhury , Tapan Kumar Jana Affiliation(s) Department of Marine Science, Calcutta University, Kolkata, India . Department of Marine Science, Calcutta University, Kolkata, India . Department of Marine Science, Calcutta University, Kolkata, India . Department of Marine Science, Calcutta University, Kolkata, India . Department of Marine Science, Calcutta University, Kolkata, India . ABSTRACT Evapotranspiration (ET) is an important part of the water cycle. This study reports on the monsoonal influence on the temporal variation in evapotranspiration of an extremely water conservative and salinity stressed tropical mangrove forest at the land-ocean boundary of northeast coast of India. The magnitude and dynamics of evapotranspiration (ET) exhibited seasonality dom...

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. ...