Soil Data from Restored Mangroves in Belawan Indonesia 2016

Featuring soil samples collected from a restored mangrove area in Belawan, North Sumatra, Indonesia, in March 2016. It was authored by Hanggara, B.B. and is associated with research on carbon stock assessments and climate change mitigation.

Use Cases

• Analyze soil properties from restored mangroves to assess carbon sequestration potential for climate change mitigation studies.
• Investigate sediment characteristics in the Belawan mangrove area to understand restoration impacts on soil composition.
• Correlate soil data with mangrove restoration efforts to evaluate their role in carbon stock assessments.

Strengths

• Data is geospatially specific, collected from a restored mangrove site in Belawan, North Sumatra, Indonesia.
• Collection date is precisely documented as March 2016, providing a temporal anchor for analysis.
• Dataset is tagged with relevant research themes including Soil, Mangroves, and Carbon Stock Assessments.

Limitations

• The dataset's size, row count, column structure, and specific measured variables are unknown.
• Data is from a single location and time point (March 2016), limiting temporal and spatial generalizability.
• Without column details, the specific soil properties and analytical methods used are unclear.

Provenance

Source

CIFOR Harvested Dataverse

Collection Method

Soil samples were collected from a restored mangrove area.

Time Range

March 2016

Freshness

The metadata was last updated on March 1, 2026, but the underlying data collection occurred in 2016.

Geography

Belawan, North Sumatra, Indonesia