Dr. Salmo's team returned to Prieto Diaz, Sorsogon last October 10-14 to conduct fieldwork on the municipality's expansive mangrove ecosystem. Before heading to the field, Dr. Salmo met with the municipal mayor, Hon. Romeo Domasian, to discuss the fieldwork's objectives…
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L panel: Recolonized stand (12 yrs); R top panel: litterfall sampling for litterfall production study; L bottom panel: makeshift acrylic corer for sediment accretion study We humbly share with you another output from our PEER ManCoRe project!Our research published in…
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Scatter plot of organic matter (OM) and organic carbon (OC) contents used to derive the general OM-OC conversion equation for Philippine mangroves. The OM was calculated using the loss-on-ignition (LOI) method, while OC was calculated using the conversion equation, %Corg=0.415…
Read More Localized Organic Matter to Organic Carbon Equations for Philippine Mangroves
Planted stands in Roxas, Oriental Mindoro. Mangrove researchers around the globe released a new study that answers the long-standing question: How long will it take for planted mangroves to store carbon at rates equal to intact stands? Logistics models compiled…
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The NAS/USAID/PEER program held its final PEER Asia Conference on 21-23 May 2004 in Bangkok, Thailand. The forum was attended by all PEER Asia cycle 9 grantees. Three of the co-grantees (from Indonesia and Vietnam) also work on mangrove research.…
Mangrove Ecology 