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Road Map to Expand Blue Carbon Reservoir

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Coastal vegetations are efficient carbon sinks that sequester and store large quantum of carbon in their biomass (above- and below-ground biomass) and underlying sediments for a considerable long period of time. The carbon sequestration capacity of mangroves, seagrass beds, tidal marshes and other marine and coastal vegetated ecosystems has been a focus of considerable attention in recent times, and the carbon stored in their biomass and sediments is coined as ‘blue carbon’.

…For achieving a successful conservation.

Human beings must have certain reservation….

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  1. Department of Marine Science, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, West Bengal, India

    Abhijit Mitra

  2. Division of Oceanography, Techno India University, Kolkata, West Bengal, India

    Sufia Zaman

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Mitra, A., Zaman, S. (2015). Road Map to Expand Blue Carbon Reservoir. In: Blue Carbon Reservoir of the Blue Planet. Springer, New Delhi. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-2107-4_8

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