Carbon stock in a wetland of the Sudamérica’s coastal desert

Authors

  • Héctor Aponte Facultad de Ciencias Veterinarias y Biológicas, Universidad Científica del Sur, Lima, Perú. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5249-9534
  • María Fernanda Corvacho Facultad de Ciencias Ambientales, Carrera de Ingeniería ambiental, Universidad Científica del Sur, Lima, Perú. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0857-5733
  • Gustavo Lertora Dirección de Cursos Básicos, Universidad Científica del Sur, Lima, Perú.
  • Dámaso W. Ramírez Museo de Historia Natural, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Laboratorio de Florística, Lima, Perú. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4605-9422

Abstract

Several studies point out that coastal wetlands are great carbon sinks; in this sense, the carbon stored in the Pantanos de Villa Ramsar wetland (Lima, Peru) was estimated, finding out, that it can store 2.21x10-5 petagrams of carbon, equivalent to 8.12 x10-5 sequestered.

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Published

2021-12-31

How to Cite

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Aponte, H.; Corvacho, M. F.; Lertora, G.; Ramírez, D. W. . Carbon Stock in a Wetland of the Sudamérica’s Coastal Desert. Gayana Bot. 2021, 78, 184-190.

Issue

Vol. 78 No. 2 (2021)

Section

SHORT COMMUNICATIONS

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