Soil carbon losses via groundwater or pore water pathways are potentially important yet poorly understood components of mangrove carbon budgets.

The gap

Consensus across the literature

Supporting evidence — 4 representative gaps

• Soil carbon sequestration in mangrove restoration: the role of flooding duration and stand type (2026) · doi

  Abstract Flooding duration and vegetation structure are key regulators of soil organic carbon (SOC) dynamics in mangrove ecosystems, yet their interactive effects and underlying mechanisms remain poorly understood.

  Keywords: abstract flooding duration vegetation structure regulators soil organic carbon dynamics mangrove ecosystems interactive effects underlying
• Appropriate Nitrogen Addition Boosts Coastal Wetland Carbon Sequestration: Kandelia obovata Optimizes Microbial Carbon Use Strategies (2026) · doi

  Mangrove ecosystems in coastal wetland restoration areas are experiencing escalating nitrogen stress, yet the microbial metabolic mechanisms underlying soil carbon sequestration in Kandelia obovata systems under exogenous nitrogen input remain unclear.

  Keywords: nitrogen mangrove ecosystems coastal wetland restoration areas experiencing escalating stress microbial metabolic mechanisms underlying soil
• The conversion of natural wetlands to paddy fields affects net ecosystem carbon fluxes by restructuring the coupling between soil microbial communities and physicochemical properties (2026) · doi

  However, the widespread conversion of wetlands into paddy fields has raised concerns, and its impacts on ecosystem net carbon fluxes, as well as the associated soil environmental and microbial regulatory mechanisms, remain insufficiently understood.

  Keywords: widespread conversion wetlands paddy fields raised concerns impacts ecosystem carbon fluxes well associated soil environmental
• Submarine Groundwater Discharge‐Derived Carbon Fluxes in Mangroves: An Important Component of Blue Carbon Budgets? (2018) · doi

  Soil carbon losses via groundwater or pore water pathways are potentially important yet poorly understood components of mangrove carbon budgets.

  Keywords: carbon soil losses groundwater pore water pathways potentially important poorly understood components mangrove budgets