A group of scientists from the Institute of Forestry and Environmental Sciences, University of Chittagong conducted a study on How biotic, abiotic, and functional variables drive belowground soil carbon stocks along stress gradient in the Sundarbans Mangrove Forest. Belowground carbon stocks (BSCs) in mangrove forest have been revealed to be driven by biotic, abiotic, and functional variables. Increasing salinity, gap fraction, and high saline zones negatively affect BSCs. Meanwhile, nutrients, basal area, leaf area index, functional variables positively affect BSCs. Furthermore, structural diversity and canopy packing may indirectly benefit BSCs.

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