Mangroves are among the most well described and widely studied wetland communities in the world. The greatest threats to mangrove persistence are deforestation and other …
Background Many mangrove ecosystems are periodically exposed to high velocity winds and surge from tropical cyclones, and often recover with time and continue to provide …
A definitive guide to the depth and breadth of the ecological sciences, revised and updated The revised and updated fifth edition of Ecology: From Individuals to Ecosystems–now in full …
I Valiela, JL Bowen, JK York - Bioscience, 2001 - academic.oup.com
Articles supplemented data from the atlas with data from local or regional publications, where available, to update estimates of the area covered by mangrove forests for as many …
This review assesses the degree of resilience of mangrove forests to large, infrequent disturbance (tsunamis) and their role in coastal protection, and to chronic disturbance events …
Abstract Since the IPCC Third Assessment Report (TAR), our understanding of the implications of climate change for coastal systems and low-lying areas (henceforth referred …
Mangroves have a global distribution within coastal tropical and subtropical climates, and have even expanded to some temperate locales. Where they do occur, mangroves provide a …
CR Townsend, JL Harper, M Begon - 2000 - cabidigitallibrary.org
This book provides an introductory text in ecology aimed at undergraduate students and is divided into sections entitled: introduction; conditions and resources; individuals …
DR Cahoon, P Hensel, J Rybczyk, KL McKee… - Journal of …, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
Summary 1 We measured sediment elevation and accretion dynamics in mangrove forests on the islands of Guanaja and Roatan, Honduras, impacted by Hurricane Mitch in 1998 to …