The University of Tokyo · Environmental Science
Professor Raghab Ray's research lab specializes in mangrove ecosystem biogeochemistry, with a primary focus on carbon dynamics—particularly blue carbon fluxes—within tropical estuarine and coastal systems. The lab investigates lateral exports of dissolved (DOC), particulate (POC), and inorganic (DIC) carbon from mangroves to the ocean, emphasizing the role of tidal transport, seasonal variability, and hydrological connectivity. Using field-based measurements, isotopic tracers, and optical properties like CDOM, the lab examines how climate variability, extreme weather events, and human-induced changes affect carbon cycling in vulnerable coastal zones.
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Tidal transport from coastal wetlands (“outwelling”) together with riverine fluxes provide most important sources of terrigenous organic matter (OM) to the ocean. The flux of dissolved organic carbon (DOC) from the mangrove swamps accounts for 10% of the terrestrial DOC flux to the coastal water. This study examines the sources, distribution, and export of dissolved OM at inter-annual, seasonal and diurnal basis along the estuaries located at the Sundarbans, world’s largest deltaic mangrove and
Because of the difficulties in setting up arrangements in the intertidal zone for free-air carbon dioxide enrichment experimentation, the responses to increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide in mangrove forests are poorly studied. This study applied box model to overcome this limitation, and the relative changes in present level of reservoirs organic carbon contents in response to the future increase of atmospheric carbon dioxide were examined in the Avicennia-dominated mangrove forest at the land
Abstract Despite being a major component in the mangrove carbon (blue carbon) budget, “outwelling” flux (or export to the sea) has gained little attention relative to other biogeochemical fluxes and reservoir carbon stock estimations. This study aims to estimate lateral exchange fluxes of dissolved and particulate organic carbon (DOC, POC) and dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC) from the watershed through a microtidal mangrove‐dominated estuary to the coastal sea in Panay Island, Philippines. Along
Abstract There is growing evidence that a substantial fraction of the dissolved organic and inorganic carbon (DOC and DIC) and particulate organic carbon (POC) can be exported from mangroves to the ocean. Yet our understanding of C fluxes in mangrove forests is limited to only few regional studies that exclude the world's longest sediment dispersal system connected to the Amazon River. The present study aims at (1) examining tidal fluctuations of DOC, POC, and DIC; their isotopes; and optical pr
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