A Bibliographic Review of the Importance of Carbon Dioxide Capture in Mangroves

Abstract

The mangrove forests that exist in the world, are extremely productive ecosystems, both in the sense of biomass and carbon storage. These mangrove forests store a large amount of carbon, not only at the above ground but also below ground, being in some cases larger carbon sequestration than other similar organisms. Due to this importance, the main objective of this research, is make an exhaustive bibliographic review of the state of the art of the importance of CO2 sequestration in mangroves, in the last 10 years, to do that, key words and strategies are identified. We obtain o total of 40 articles worldwide within the 2009-2019 period. We found that 63% of these studies correspond to the mangrove forests in the Asian continent. Finally, we conclude that studies like this provide an updated bibliography of the state of the art on the carbon sequestration in mangroves to the scientific community.