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Mangrove Ecosystems: A Global Biogeographic Perspective

Structure, Function, and Services

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Editors:
  1. Victor H. Rivera-Monroy

    1. Department of Oceanography and Coastal Sciences, College of the Coast and Environment, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, USA

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  2. Shing Yip Lee

    1. School of Environment, Griffith University, Southport, Australia

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  3. Erik Kristensen

    1. Department of Biology, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark

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  4. Robert R. Twilley

    1. Department of Oceanography and Coastal Sciences, College of the Coast and Environment, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, USA

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  • Analyzes mangrove ecological processes at the local, biogeographic, and global scales
  • Integrates ecological and socio-ecological perspectives on mangrove function and management
  • Explores the nexus between mangrove ecology and the capacity for ecosystem services, with an emphasis on thresholds, multiple stressors, and local conditions

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. Introduction

    • Victor H. Rivera-Monroy, Shing Yip Lee, Erik Kristensen, Robert R. Twilley
    Pages 1-16

  3. Mangrove Floristics and Biogeography Revisited: Further Deductions from Biodiversity Hot Spots, Ancestral Discontinuities, and Common Evolutionary Processes

    • Norman C. Duke
    Pages 17-53

  4. Biodiversity

    • S. Y. Lee, E. B. G. Jones, K. Diele, G. A. Castellanos-Galindo, I. Nordhaus
    Pages 55-86

  5. 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

  6. Productivity and Carbon Dynamics in Mangrove Wetlands

    • Robert R. Twilley, Edward Castañeda-Moya, Victor H. Rivera-Monroy, Andre Rovai
    Pages 113-162

  7. 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

  8. Mangrove Ecosystems under Climate Change

    • T. C. Jennerjahn, E. Gilman, K. W. Krauss, L. D. Lacerda, I. Nordhaus, E. Wolanski
    Pages 211-244

  9. 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

  10. 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

  11. 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

  12. 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

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 383-399
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About this book

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.



Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Oceanography and Coastal Sciences, College of the Coast and Environment, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, USA

    Victor H. Rivera-Monroy, Robert R. Twilley

  • School of Environment, Griffith University, Southport, Australia

    Shing Yip Lee

  • Department of Biology, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark

    Erik Kristensen

About the editors

Victor H. Rivera-Monroy is associate professor in the Department of Oceanography and Coastal Sciences, College of the Coast and Environment at Louisiana State University. He has performed ecological studies in mangrove-dominated ecosystems for the last 20 years in Latin America, particularly research on biogeochemistry, wetland productivity and restoration issues. Currently he is member of both the Florida Coastal Everglades (FCE) Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) program funded by the US National Science Foundation and the Mexican LTER program.

Shing Yip (Joe) Lee is a professor at the School of Life Sciences and director of the Simon S.F. Li Marine Science Laboratory at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. His work on mangroves is focused on the ecosystem processes of mangroves, particularly the role of key fauna in trophodynamics. He has been working on mangroves in Southeast Asia and Australia since 1985. He was appointed founding co-chair of the

IUCNSpecialist Group on Mangroves in 2013.

Erik Kristensen is professor at the Institute of Biology, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark. For over three decades he has traveled to many mangrove areas in Africa, Asia and Australia to do his research. This has been a simple necessity given the lack of mangrove forests in his home country. His research is focused on carbon, sulfur, iron and nitrogen biogeochemistry in mangrove sediments as well as food web dynamics among mangrove benthos.

Robert R. Twilley is professor in the Department of Oceanography and coastal Sciences, College of the Coast and Environment at Louisiana State University. He has performed research in new and old world mangrove ecosystems during the last 25 years, with emphasis on system ecology and biogeochemistry, conceptual and simulation models, coastal ecosystem restoration and nutrient dynamics. He is currently the executive director of the LSU-based Louisiana Sea Grant Col

lege Program at LSU.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Mangrove Ecosystems: A Global Biogeographic Perspective

  • Book Subtitle: Structure, Function, and Services

  • Editors: Victor H. Rivera-Monroy, Shing Yip Lee, Erik Kristensen, Robert R. Twilley

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62206-4

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2017

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-62204-0Published: 13 November 2017

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-87257-5Published: 05 September 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-62206-4Published: 03 November 2017

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVI, 399

  • Number of Illustrations: 28 b/w illustrations, 46 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Ecosystems, Freshwater & Marine Ecology, Forestry, Conservation Biology/Ecology, Environmental Management

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