Each year millions of larval and 0+ juvenile fishes are recruited into estuarine fish
populations around the world. For several decades the roles of littoral aquatic and emergent …

Mangroves are defined by the presence of trees that mainly occur in the intertidal zone,
between land and sea, in the (sub) tropics. The intertidal zone is characterised by highly …

Aim To reassess the capacity of mangroves for ecosystem services in the light of recent data.
Location Global mangrove ecosystems. Methods We review four long‐standing roles of …

Mangroves, the only woody halophytes living at the confluence of land and sea, have been
heavily used traditionally for food, timber, fuel and medicine, and presently occupy about …

Our current knowledge on production, composition, transport, pathways and transformations
of organic carbon in tropical mangrove environments is reviewed and discussed. Organic …

Despite their importance in sustaining livelihoods for many people living along some of the
world's most populous coastlines, tropical mangrove forests are disappearing at an alarming …

The last 20 years witnessed a real paradigm shift concerning the impact of biotic factors on
ecosystem functions as well as on vegetation structure of mangrove forests. Before this small …

Mangrove ecosystems are highly productive tropical coastal ecosystems which have a
potentially high impact on the carbon budget of the tropical and global coastal zone. The …

Mangrove sediments from three different mangrove ecosystems (Coringa Wildlife Sanctuary
in the Godavari Delta, Andhra Pradesh, India, and Galle and Pambala, south-west Sri …

The influence of mangrove saplings (Avicennia marina) and fiddler crabs (Uca vocans) on
carbon, iron, and sulfur biogeochemistry in mangrove sediment was studied using outdoor …