Sediment depth and accumulation constrain belowground carbon stocks across northern New World mangroves.

Matthew T. Costa1, Exequiel Ezcurra2, Paula Excurra1, Pelayo Salinas de León3, Benjamin L Turner4, Joy Kumagai5, James Leichter6 and Octavio Aburto-Oropeza7, (1)University of California, San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States, (2)University of California, Riverside, Botany and Plant Sciences, Riverside, CA, United States, (3)Charles Darwin Foundation, Santa Cruz, Ecuador, (4)Smithsonian Tropical Res Inst, Ancon, Panama, (5)University of California, San Diego, Scripps Institituion of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States, (6)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California at San Diego, San Diego, CA, United States, (7)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Marine Biology Research Division, La Jolla, CA, United States