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Robert J. Weaver and Abigail L. Stehno
Mangroves offer vital ecological advantages including air and water filtration, coastal and estuarine habitat provision, sediment stabilization, and wave energy dissipation. Their intricate root systems play a key role in safeguarding shorelines from tsu...
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Qianwen Ye, Cuicui Hou, Qiang Wang, Changjun Gao, Kay Stefanik, Feng Li and Bingbing Jiang
For decades in China, carbon neutrality policies have spurred the establishment of northern margin mangroves as artificial blue carbon ecosystems. However, there has been limited research on the impact of plantation and invasion on the stocks and sources...
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Che Abd Rahim Mohamed, Aqilah Nur Shahruddin, Siriporn Pradit, Pei Sun Loh, Thongchai Nitiratsuwan, Thawanrat Kobkeatthawin, Prakrit Noppradit, Thi Phuong Quynh Le, Chantha Oeurng, Ty Sok, Choon Weng Lee, Chui Wei Bong, Xixi Lu, Gusti Z. Anshari, Selvaraj Kandasamy and Jianjun Wang
Microplastics are widespread in coastal and marine environments, and sediments serve as a sink for microplastics. In this study, four sediment cores were collected from the Kuala Gula Mangrove area. The abundance of microplastics in mangrove sediments ra...
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Yidi Wei, Yongcun Cheng, Xiaobin Yin, Qing Xu, Jiangchen Ke and Xueding Li
Detailed information about mangroves is crucial for ecological and environmental protection and sustainable development. It is difficult to capture small patches of mangroves from satellite images with relatively low to medium resolution. In this study, ...
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Stephen C. Medeiros
Mangroves are a natural feature that enhance the resilience of natural and built coastal environments worldwide. They mitigate the impacts of hurricanes by dissipating energy from storm surges and waves, as well as reducing wind speeds. To incorporate ma...
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Rahul Dev Raju and Madasamy Arockiasamy
Mangroves and moored barges are used individually for coastal protection and beach restoration. This conceptual paper discusses about the integration of mangroves with moored floating barges for coastal protection. The concept involves towing of a barge ...
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Xiaoxia Zhang, Pengzhi Lin and Xinping Chen
Mangroves provide many ecosystem services, including coastal protection against storm surges and waves. As an adaptive method for coastal defense, mangroves were widely restored and planted in tropical and subtropical regions, such as the coastal regions...
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Siriporn Pradit, Prakrit Noppradit, Pei-Sun Loh, Thongchai Nitiratsuwan, Thi Phuong Quynh Le, Chantha Oeurng, Che Abd Rahim Mohamed, Choon Weng Lee, Xixi Lu, Gusti Z. Anshari, Selvaraj Kandasamy and Jianjun Wang
Mangroves are areas that connect the land and sea, and are important to the ecosystem. They are important places for food sources and the habitat of aquatic fauna in the tidal areas. However, the existence of plastic debris poses a risk to the aquatic en...
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Catalina Vasquez-Carrillo and Kathleen Sullivan Sealey
This paper describes the unique natural communities and biodiversity of the upwelling coastal system along the Guajira peninsula in the southern Caribbean Sea. The Guajira peninsula has a small human population with limited infrastructure and limited opp...
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Luís Russo Vieira, José Guilherme Vieira, Isabel Marques da Silva, Edison Barbieri and Fernando Morgado
Coastal erosion is considered a major worldwide challenge. The vulnerability assessment of coastal areas, in relation to climate change, is a key topic of worldwide increasing interest. The integration of methodologies supported by Remote Sensing, Geogra...
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