We review 72 published articles to elucidate characteristics of biomass allocation and
productivity of mangrove forests and also introduce recent progress on the study of …

Mexico has more than 750,000 ha of mangroves and more than 400,000 ha of seagrasses.
However, approximately 200,000 ha of mangroves and an unknown area of seagrass have …

Mangroves, the only woody halophytes living at the confluence of land and sea, have been
heavily used traditionally for food, timber, fuel and medicine, and presently occupy about …

Despite their importance in sustaining livelihoods for many people living along some of the
world's most populous coastlines, tropical mangrove forests are disappearing at an alarming …

Mangrove forests are highly productive but globally threatened coastal ecosystems, whose
role in the carbon budget of the coastal zone has long been debated. Here we provide a …

A detailed account of the biology and ecology of vascular wetland plants and their
applications in wetland plant science, Wetland Plants: Biology and Ecology presents a …

Mangrove forest phenology at the regional scale have been poorly investigated and its
driving factors remain unclear. Multi-temporal remote sensing represents a key tool to …

Coastal Ecosystem Processes, written by the renowned marine scientist Daniel Alongi,
describes how pelagic and benthic food webs, from beaches and tidal flats to the continental …

1 Macrofaunal leaf consumption and degradation of leaves, woody twigs and roots were
studied in mangrove island forests on a Belizean island. Factors influencing accumulation of …

Because mangroves store greater amounts of carbon (C) per area than any other terrestrial
ecosystem, conservation of mangrove forests on a global scale represents a potentially …