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Stronger increases but greater variability in global mangrove productivity compared to that of adjacent terrestrial forests
Mangrove forests are a highly productive ecosystem with important potential to offset anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions. Mangroves are expected to respond differently to climate change compared to terrest...
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Open AccessUncertainties in deforestation emission baseline methodologies and implications for carbon markets
Carbon credits generated through jurisdictional-scale avoided deforestation projects require accurate estimates of deforestation emission baselines, but there are serious challenges to their robustness. We ass...
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Open AccessDrivers of global mangrove loss and gain in social-ecological systems
Mangrove forests store high amounts of carbon, protect communities from storms, and support fisheries. Mangroves exist in complex social-ecological systems, hence identifying socioeconomic conditions associate...
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Cross-cutting research themes for future mangrove forest research
We identified the function of mangrove ecosystems that underpin ecosystem services, their responses to extreme weather and climatic events, and their role as crucial social-ecological systems as important para...
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Blue carbon as a natural climate solution
Blue carbon ecosystems (BCEs), including mangrove forests, seagrass meadows and tidal marshes, store carbon and provide co-benefits such as coastal protection and fisheries enhancement. Blue carbon sequestrati...
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Open AccessA meta-analysis of the ecological and economic outcomes of mangrove restoration
Mangrove restoration has become a popular strategy to ensure the critical functions and economic benefits of this ecosystem. This study conducts a meta-analysis of the peer-reviewed literature on the outcomes ...
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Open AccessSources of Particulate Organic Matter across Mangrove Forests and Adjacent Ecosystems in Different Geomorphic Settings
Mangrove forests are among the world’s most productive ecosystems and provide essential ecosystem services such as global climate regulation through the sequestration of carbon. A detailed understanding of the...
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Open AccessA global biophysical typology of mangroves and its relevance for ecosystem structure and deforestation
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 conceptu...
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Economic and social constraints on reforestation for climate mitigation in Southeast Asia
As climate change continues to threaten human and natural systems, the search for cost-effective and practical mitigation solutions is gaining momentum. Reforestation has recently been identified as a promisin...
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Open AccessGlobal trends in mangrove forest fragmentation
Fragmentation is a major driver of ecosystem degradation, reducing the capacity of habitats to provide many important ecosystem services. Mangrove ecosystem services, such as erosion prevention, shoreline prot...
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Open AccessPatterns of mangrove forest disturbance and biomass removal due to small-scale harvesting in southwestern Madagascar
Informal small-scale mangrove wood harvesting has received limited attention, though it is a widespread threat to mangroves in many parts of the tropics. We investigated wood use and the impacts of harvesting ...
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Open AccessAuthor Correction: The future of Blue Carbon science
An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via a link at the top of the paper.
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Open AccessThe future of Blue Carbon science
The term Blue Carbon (BC) was first coined a decade ago to describe the disproportionately large contribution of coastal vegetated ecosystems to global carbon sequestration. The role of BC in climate change mi...
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Where the tallest mangroves are
Mangrove canopy heights vary around the world in response to rain, storms and human activities, suggests a global analysis of mangrove canopy height. How tall the trees are matters for estimating global mangro...
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Global carbon stocks and potential emissions due to mangrove deforestation from 2000 to 2012
Mangrove forests store high densities of organic carbon, which, when coupled with high rates of deforestation, means that mangroves have the potential to contribute substantially to carbon emissions. Consequen...
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The state of the world’s mangroves in the 21st century under climate change
Concerted mangrove research and rehabilitation efforts over the last several decades have prompted a better understanding of the important ecosystem attributes worthy of protection and a better conservation et...
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Quantifying fisheries ecosystem services of mangroves and tropical artificial urban shorelines
Rapid development has fragmented Singapore’s coastal habitats and converted them into artificial shorelines, with implications for the ecosystem services they provide. This study investigated the impact of urb...
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Characterizing Coastal Ecosystem Service Trade-offs with Future Urban Development in a Tropical City
With rapid urbanization in the coastal zone and increasing habitat losses, it is imperative to understand how urban development affects coastal biodiversity and ecosystem service provision. Furthermore, it is ...
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Growth performance and structure of a mangrove afforestation project on a former seagrass bed, Mindanao Island, Philippines
The Philippines has lost nearly 70% of its natural mangrove cover since the early 1900s. As a result, large investments have been made to restore mangrove forests and the many ecosystem services that they prov...
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Mangrove forests store high densities of carbon across the tropical urban landscape of Singapore
Tropical forested ecosystems provide multiple ecosystem services to rural and urban landscapes, with carbon storage gaining particular attention. Deforestation due to rural-urban transitions may lead to a redu...
