Carbon stocks of mangroves within the Zambezi River Delta, Mozambique
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Center for Forested Wetlands Research, Southern Research Station, USDA Forest Service, Cordesville, SC, USA b Forest Inventory and Analysis, Southern Research Station, USDA Forest Service, Clemson, SC, USA Department of Geography and Earth Sciences, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC, USA Center for Applied Geographic Information Science, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC, USA
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