Spatial Variability and Relationship of Mangrove Soil Organic Matter to Organic Carbon

Table 3

Overview of available soil carbon content in mangrove forests.

Authors	Place	Site characteristics	Depth	Reported statistics	Carbon content
Chaikaew and Chavanich (this study)	Upper eastern coast of the Gulf of Thailand, Thailand	Mixed natural and planted mangrove forests with dominated Avicennia alba Bl.	0–5 cm	Mean ± SD	3.08 ± 1.25%
			5–10 cm	Mean ± SD	2.51 ± 1.47%
Chandra et al. (2015) [34]	Sarawak, Malaysia	Diverse mangrove species	40 cm	Range	1.73–6.24%
Donato et al. (2011) [5]	Indo-Pacific region	Oceanic mangrove	2 m	Mean	14.6%
		Estuarine mangrove	2 m	Mean	7.69%
Ray et al. (2011) [35]	Northeast coast of the Bay of Bengal, India	Natural mangrove forest (before monsoon)	30 cm	Mean	0.51%
		Natural mangrove forest (after monsoon)	30 cm	Mean	0.65%
Lacerda et al. (1995) [33]	Sepetiba Bay, Brazil	Experimental Rhizophora mangle forest	1.5 cm	Mean	2.80%
			5–10 cm	Mean	2.70%
			10–15 cm	Mean	2.70%
		Experimental Avicennia schaueriana forest	1.5 cm	Mean	6.10%
			5–10 cm	Mean	3.80%
			10–15 cm	Mean	3.80%
Sukardjo (1994) [36]	East Kalimantan, Indonesia	Soils dominated by Avicennia forest	20 cm	Mean ± SD	3.96 ± 0.18%
		Soils dominated by Ceriops forest	20 cm	Mean ± SD	11.40 ± 0.64%