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20-Years Cumulative Impact From Shrimp Farming on Mangroves of Northeast Brazil

open access: yesFrontiers in Forests and Global Change, 2021
Brazilian mangroves cover about 11,100 km2 and provide a wide range of ecosystem services. Despite their importance, they are one of the most impacted ecosystems because of combined influences of climate change, pollution, and direct conversion and loss.
L. D. de Lacerda   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Local uses of mangroves and perceived impacts of their degradation in Grand-Popo municipality, a hotspot of mangroves in Benin, West Africa

open access: yesTrees, Forests and People, 2021
Detailed understanding of interactions between humans and their surrounding ecosystems is essential for designing sustainable use and management of these ecosystems.
Sètondé Constant Gnansounou, M.Sc   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Mangrove forests [PDF]

open access: yesCurrent Biology, 2016
Mangrove forests are unique ecosystems that are important for human populations.
openaire   +2 more sources

Friends or Foes? The Problem of South Florida’s Invasive Mangroves [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
A recent global review on the impacts of climate change on mangroves concluded that different regions will experience varying degrees of impacts due to the variability of expected changes in climate (shifts in precipitation, frequency and intensity of ...
Araújo, Rafael J., Cox, Kelly J.
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Flow routing in mangrove forests: field data obtained in Trang, Thailand [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Mangroves grow in the intertidal parts of sheltered tropical coastlines, facilitating coastal stabilization and wave attenuation. Mangroves are widely threatened nowadays, although past studies have indicated their contribution to coastal safety. Most of
Bouma, T.J.   +3 more
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Local positive feedback and the persistence and recovery of fringe Avicennia marina (Forssk.) Vierh. mangroves [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
While mangrove restoration efforts are reasonably successful, failure often occurs in high wave energy situations. Due to differences in wave energy, seedling mortality rates vary strongly with position on the intertidal flat between high water spring ...
Boer, W.F., de   +2 more
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Crab biodiversity under different management schemes of mangrove ecosystems [PDF]

open access: yesGlobal Journal of Environmental Science and Management, 2016
Reforestation is one of the Philippines’ government efforts to restore and rehabilitate degraded mangrove ecosystems. Although there is recovery of the ecosystem in terms of vegetation, the recovery of closely-linked faunal species in terms of community ...
M. Bandibas, V. Hilomen
doaj   +1 more source

Sundarban mangroves: diversity, ecosystem services and climate change impacts [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
The Bengal delta coast harboring the famous Sundarban mangroves is extremely vulnerable to climate change. Already, salinity intrusion, increasing cyclones and anomalies in rainfall, and temperature, are causing many social and livelihood problems ...
Dey, Mouri   +6 more
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A global biophysical typology of mangroves and its relevance for ecosystem structure and deforestation

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2020
Mangrove forests provide many ecosystem services but are among the world’s most threatened ecosystems. Mangroves vary substantially according to their geomorphic and sedimentary setting; while several conceptual frameworks describe these settings, their ...
Thomas A. Worthington   +14 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Characteristics of Functional Materials Recovered from Indonesian Mangroves (Sonneratia alba and Rhizhophora mucronata) Using Subcritical Water Extraction [PDF]

open access: yesE3S Web of Conferences, 2020
Mangrove is the most productive ecosystem in marine environment, as it provides a unique habitat opportunity for many marine species and key goods and services for human beings.
Pangestuti Ratih   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

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