The mean above-ground C stock overall had an increasing trend from the fringe toward the interior forest (ANOVA,
p b 0.05), being 90.2 ± 15.8, 109.2 ± 24.2, and 115.2 ± 19.3 MgC ha−1 for the fringe, transitional, and interior forests, respectively (Fig. 5). The above-ground C stock had an overall mean of 104.9 ± 20.7 MgC ha−1 for mangrove forest in the CMNP.