Global patterns in mangrove soil carbon stocks and losses (original) (raw)

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In the version of this Article originally published, the potential carbon loss from soils as a result of mangrove deforestation was incorrectly given as '2.0–75 Tg C yr−1; this should have read '2–8 Tg C yr−1;'. The corresponding emissions were incorrectly given as '~7.3–275 Tg of CO2e'; this should have read '~7–29 Tg of CO2e'. The corresponding percentage equivalent of these emissions compared with those from global terrestrial deforestation was incorrectly given as '0.2–6%'; this should have read '0.6–2.4%'. These errors have now been corrected in all versions of the Article.

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Acknowledgements

Support was provided by the CSIRO Coastal Carbon Biogeochemistry Cluster. We also acknowledge the support of The Oceans Institute of the University of Western Australia, the Global Change Institute of The University of Queensland, and the Australian Research Council (Awards DE130101084, DE170101524, LP160100242, LE140100083 and DP150103286) and King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) through the baseline fund to C.M.D. We would like to thank P. Terletzky-Gese for assistance with GIS.

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  1. Department of Watershed Sciences and Ecology Center, Utah State University, Logan, Utah, 84322-5210, USA
    Trisha B. Atwood & Catherine E. Lovelock
  2. Global Change Institute, University of Queensland, St Lucia, Queensland, 4067, Australia
    Trisha B. Atwood
  3. Australian Rivers Institute—Coast and Estuaries, School of Environment, Griffith University, Gold Coast, Queensland, 4222, Australia
    Rod M. Connolly
  4. Biology Department, University of Dammam (UOD), Dammam, 31441-1982, Saudi Arabia
    Hanan Almahasheer
  5. Deakin University, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Center for Integrative Ecology, Burwood, Victoria, 3125, Australia
    Paul E. Carnell, Carolyn J. Ewers Lewis & Peter I. Macreadie
  6. King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Red Sea Research Center (RSRC), Thuwal, 23955-6900, Saudi Arabia
    Carlos M. Duarte
  7. AZTI—Marine Research, Herrera Kaia, Portualdea z/g-20110, Pasaia (Gipuzkoa), Spain
    Xabier Irigoien
  8. Ikerbasque, Basque Foundation for Science, 48013, Bilbao, Spain
    Xabier Irigoien
  9. Department of Environmental Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, New South Wales, 2109, Australia
    Jeffrey J. Kelleway
  10. School of Science & Centre for Marine Ecosystems Research, Edith Cowan University, Joondalup Drive, Joondalup, Western Australia, 6027, Australia
    Paul S. Lavery & Oscar Serrano
  11. Centre d’Estudis Avançats de Blanes—CSIC, 17300, Blanes, Spain
    Paul S. Lavery
  12. UWA Oceans Institute, University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia, 6009, Australia
    Oscar Serrano
  13. National Marine Science Centre, School of Environment, Science and Engineering, Southern Cross University, Coffs Harbour, New South Wales, 2450, Australia
    Christian J. Sanders & Isaac Santos
  14. CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere, Ecosciences Precinct, Dutton Park, Queensland, 4102, Australia
    Andrew D. L. Steven
  15. School of Biological Sciences, University of Queensland, St Lucia, Queensland, 4072, Australia
    Catherine E. Lovelock

Authors

  1. Trisha B. Atwood
  2. Rod M. Connolly
  3. Hanan Almahasheer
  4. Paul E. Carnell
  5. Carlos M. Duarte
  6. Carolyn J. Ewers Lewis
  7. Xabier Irigoien
  8. Jeffrey J. Kelleway
  9. Paul S. Lavery
  10. Peter I. Macreadie
  11. Oscar Serrano
  12. Christian J. Sanders
  13. Isaac Santos
  14. Andrew D. L. Steven
  15. Catherine E. Lovelock

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T.B.A., R.M.C., and C.E.L. designed the study. T.B.A., C.E.L., H.A., P.E.C., C.M.D., C.J.E.L., X.I., J.J.K., P.S.L., P.I.M., O.S., C.J.S., I.S. and A.D.L.S. contributed data. T.B.A. analysed the data and drafted the first version of the manuscript. All authors contributed to the writing and editing of the manuscript.

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Atwood, T., Connolly, R., Almahasheer, H. et al. Global patterns in mangrove soil carbon stocks and losses.Nature Clim Change 7, 523–528 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate3326

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