Intertidal mangrove forests are a dynamic ecosystem experiencing rapid changes in extent
and habitat quality over geological history, today and into the future. Climate and sea level …

Globally, mangrove forests are substantially declining, and a globally synthesized database
containing the drivers of deforestation and drivers' interactions is scarce. Here, we …

Coastal wetlands such as mangrove forests and saltmarshes provide a range of important
benefits to people, broadly defined as ecosystem services. These include provisioning …

Mangrove forest are used widely for meeting fuelwood needs of local communities in the
tropics. However, the implications of fuelwood extraction on mangrove ecology has received …

Mangroves provide many benefits to human welfare, but they are disappearing rapidly;
Ecuador and countries within the Tropical Eastern Pacific (TEP) region have lost over 40 …

Over the last decades, Costa Rica became established as a world-leading ecotourism
destination due to its environmental policies and environmental awareness. The country is …

This study assesses the evolution of major anthropogenic drivers of environmental impacts
on Neotropical mangroves, the changes in the environmental pressures acting upon them …

Ecosystem services are now strongly applied to mangrove forests, though they are not a
new way of viewing mangrove-people interactions; the benefits provided by such habitats …

Mangroves, one of the major coastal ecosystems of tropical and subtropical regions, are
critical habitats for fish and crustaceans, and provide a number of ecosystem services to …

The flagship species paradigm (FSP) involves the selection of a species to strategically front
conservation efforts and marketing campaigns. Chosen species are often charismatic …