Abstract: Climate change is a global challenging issue, elevated levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide as a result of increased anthropogenic activities and the resulted consequences are exceeding the predominant change in climate conditions to result in several deteriorations as habitat loss, species population and diversity loss, sea level rise threatening coastal habitats including mangrove ecosystem, hurricanes, floods and desertification. The world began since Kyoto protocol in 1997 to work mainly in two dimensions, first is minimizing practices results in more emissions of greenhouse gasses, the second is trying to encourage activities that increase uptake of atmospheric carbon dioxide. Present study tried to provide a more accurate estimate using non-destructive method for the carbon content in biomass of Avicennia marina as one of pioneer ecosystems in carbon storage in both biomass and sediments...........
KeyWords: Carbon storage, Climate change, Coastal ecosystems, Mangrove biomass, Mangrove plantation
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