Figure 7. Worldwide average comparison of C_org stocks per unit of area in mangroves.

Data in Mg per unit of area (ha). Black bars correspond to data from Asia (data reported by Kauffman et al., 2011; Liu et al., 2014; Schile et al., 2017; Rahman et al., 2015 and Almahasheer et al., 2017). Dark gray bars correspond to data from Africa (Jones et al., 2014). Light gray bars correspond to data from America (Kauffman et al., 2014; Bhomia et al., 2016; Kauffman et al., 2018 and Thorhaug et al., 2018). Red bar corresponds to data from Mexico obtained in this study.