Mangroves as Feeding and Breeding Grounds

Mangroves are considered as ecosystems that provide shelter, food and breeding grounds for many groups of inhabiting fauna. Much of the fauna present are organisms in different stages of their life cy[...]

Seagrass Restoration Enhances “Blue Carbon” Sequestration in Coastal Waters

Seagrass meadows are highly productive habitats that provide important ecosystem services in the coastal zone, including carbon and nutrient sequestration. Organic carbon in seagrass sediment, known a[...]

The Global Flood Protection Benefits of Mangroves

Coastal flood risks are rising rapidly. Authors provide high resolution estimates of the economic value of mangroves forests for flood risk reduction every 20 km worldwide. Authors develop a probabi[...]

Creation of a High Spatio-temporal Resolution Global Database of Continuous Mangrove Forest Cover for the 21st Century

Global mangrove deforestation continues but at a much reduced rate of between 0.16% and 0.39% per year. Southeast Asia is a region of concern with mangrove deforestation rates between 3.58% and 8.08%,[...]

Species Distribution and Habitat Exploitation of Fauna Associated with Kelp (Laminaria Hyperborea) Along the Norwegian Coast

Fauna associated with the common kelp along the Norwegian coast, Laminaria hyperborea, was sampled at four sites covering 1000 km of coastline. Exploitation of the kelp habitat by the fauna, and the[...]

Mangroves Among the Most Carbon-Rich Forests in the Tropics

Mangrove forests occur along ocean coastlines throughout the tropics, and support numerous ecosystem services, including fisheries production and nutrient cycling. However, the areal extent of mangrov[...]

The Protective Role of Coastal Marshes: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

Saltmarshes lie between many human communities and the coast and have been presumed to protect these communities from coastal hazards by providing important ecosystem services. However, previous chara[...]

Understanding the Role of Conceptual Frameworks: Reading the ecosystem service cascade

The aim of this paper is to identify the role of conceptual frameworks in operationalising and mainstreaming the idea of ecosystem services. It builds on some initial discussions from IPBES, which sug[...]