Spatially explicit estimation of soil organic carbon stock of an estuarine mangrove wetland of eastern India using elemental analysis and very-fine resolution satellite data

Ecological Processes

Table 5 Estimated total SOC stocks and mean, minimum, maximum and standard error (SE) values of SOC densities under different LULC categories

LULC category	Area (ha)	Area (%)	Total SOC stock (Mg)	Mean SOC (Mg ha⁻¹)	Minimum SOC (Mg ha⁻¹)	Maximum SOC (Mg ha⁻¹)	SE (Mg ha⁻¹)
Dense mangrove	306.73	22.71	76,351.16	248.92	68.60	544.89	22.88
Open mangrove	263.43	19.51	52,247.13	198.33	54.35	523.28	28.45
Mixed vegetation	67.89	5.03	1262.37	18.59	0.00	39.07	1.79
Casuarina plantation	131.20	9.71	364.09	2.78	0.00	11.53	1.20
Herbaceous vegetation	312.82	23.16	21,635.05	69.16	5.69	156.34	11.44
Agriculture	54.43	4.03	686.08	12.60	4.82	58.28	4.23
Aquaculture	47.93	3.55	7485.66	156.18	36.57	326.17	44.04
Waterbody	120.76	8.94	9015.39	74.66	19.69	141.75	15.33
Bare earth and sand	45.33	3.36	522.47	11.53	0.00	17.08	0.41
Total	1350.52	100.00	169,569.40	125.56	0.00	544.89	-