Old Growth Mangrove Forest Inventory Data from Espírito Santo, Brazil

Forest structure inventory data for old growth, natural mangroves in Aracruz, Espírito Santo, PELD ES study site, (SE Brazil). The dataset includes diameter at breast height (DBH) and porewater salinity measurements collected in 2017 and 2022 from random transects in the Piraquê-Açu-Mirim estuary. It was created by Angelo Fraga Bernardino and used to assess mangrove ecosystem carbon losses from a climate impact.

Use Cases

• Modeling mangrove carbon stock changes based on DBH and salinity data
• Analyzing forest structure dynamics in old-growth mangroves based on inventory data
• Assessing climate impacts on coastal ecosystems based on multi-year measurements

Strengths

• Data collected in two distinct years (2017 and 2022), allowing temporal comparison
• Methodology is documented in a peer-reviewed publication (Pacheco et al., 2026)
• Data is openly licensed under CC-BY-4.0

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment
• Data collection used random transects, not permanent plots, which may affect longitudinal analysis

Provenance

Source

figshare

Collection Method

Field inventory from random transects in the Piraquê-Açu-Mirim estuary

Time Range

2017, 2022

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-06 15:13:04

Geography

Piraquê-Açu-Mirim estuary, Espírito Santo, Brazil