Mangrove Ecosystems: A Global Biogeographic Perspective: Structure, Function, and Services

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This book presents a comprehensive overview and analysis of mangrove ecological processes, structure, and function at the local, biogeographic, and global scales and how these properties interact to provide key ecosystem services to society. The analysis is based on an international collaborative effort that focuses on regions and countries holding the largest mangrove resources and encompasses the major biogeographic and socio-economic settings of mangrove distribution. Given the economic and ecological importance of mangrove wetlands at the global scale, the chapters aim to integrate ecological and socio-economic perspectives on mangrove function and management using a system-level hierarchical analysis framework. The book explores the nexus between mangrove ecology and the capacity for ecosystem services, with an emphasis on thresholds, multiple stressors, and local conditions that determine this capacity. The interdisciplinary approach and illustrative study cases included in the book will provide valuable resources in data, information, and knowledge about the current status of one of the most productive coastal ecosystem in the world. Front Matter ....Pages i-xvi Introduction (Victor H. Rivera-Monroy, Shing Yip Lee, Erik Kristensen, Robert R. Twilley)....Pages 1-16 Mangrove Floristics and Biogeography Revisited: Further Deductions from Biodiversity Hot Spots, Ancestral Discontinuities, and Common Evolutionary Processes (Norman C. Duke)....Pages 17-53 Biodiversity (S. Y. Lee, E. B. G. Jones, K. Diele, G. A. Castellanos-Galindo, I. Nordhaus)....Pages 55-86 Spatial Ecology of Mangrove Forests: A Remote Sensing Perspective (Richard Lucas, Alma Vázquez Lule, María Teresa Rodríguez, Muhammad Kamal, Nathan Thomas, Emma Asbridge et al.)....Pages 87-112 Productivity and Carbon Dynamics in Mangrove Wetlands (Robert R. Twilley, Edward Castañeda-Moya, Victor H. Rivera-Monroy, Andre Rovai)....Pages 113-162 Biogeochemical Cycles: Global Approaches and Perspectives (Erik Kristensen, Rod M. Connolly, Xose L. Otero, Cyril Marchand, Tiago O. Ferreira, Victor H. Rivera-Monroy)....Pages 163-209 Mangrove Ecosystems under Climate Change (T. C. Jennerjahn, E. Gilman, K. W. Krauss, L. D. Lacerda, I. Nordhaus, E. Wolanski)....Pages 211-244 Mangroves and People: Local Ecosystem Services in a Changing Climate (Mark Huxham, Amrit Dencer-Brown, Karen Diele, Kandasamy Kathiresan, Ivan Nagelkerken, Caroline Wanjiru)....Pages 245-274 Anthropogenic Drivers of Mangrove Loss: Geographic Patterns and Implications for Livelihoods (Rinku Roy Chowdhury, Emi Uchida, Luzhen Chen, Victor Osorio, Landon Yoder)....Pages 275-300 Mangrove Forest Restoration and Rehabilitation (Jorge López-Portillo, Roy R. Lewis III, Peter Saenger, André Rovai, Nico Koedam, Farid Dahdouh-Guebas et al.)....Pages 301-345 Advancing Mangrove Macroecology (Victor H. Rivera-Monroy, Michael J. Osland, John W. Day, Santanu Ray, Andre Rovai, Richard H. Day et al.)....Pages 347-381 Back Matter ....Pages 383-399