The state of the world's mangrove forests: past, present, and future

DA Friess, K Rogers, CE Lovelock… - Annual Review of …, 2019 - annualreviews.org
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 …

Mangroves in arid regions: Ecology, threats, and opportunities

MF Adame, R Reef, NS Santini, E Najera… - Estuarine, Coastal and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Mangroves are one of the few woody ecosystems that grow in hot-arid climates. They can
survive extreme conditions of low precipitation, high solar radiation, wide temperature …

Fingerprinting blue carbon: rationale and tools to determine the source of organic carbon in marine depositional environments

NR Geraldi, A Ortega, O Serrano… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Blue carbon is the organic carbon in oceanic and coastal ecosystems that is captured on
centennial to millennial timescales. Maintaining and increasing blue carbon is an integral …

The core mangrove microbiome reveals shared taxa potentially involved in nutrient cycling and promoting host survival

BJ Wainwright, T Millar, L Bowen, L Semon… - Environmental …, 2023 - Springer
Background Microbes have fundamental roles underpinning the functioning of our planet,
they are involved in global carbon and nutrient cycling, and support the existence of …

[HTML][HTML] Mangrove forest regeneration age map and drivers of restoration success in Gulf Cooperation Council countries from satellite imagery

M Mohan, AD Roy, JF Montenegro, MS Watt… - Remote Sensing …, 2024 - Elsevier
Mangrove forests are found across the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) region despite
challenging environmental extremes, including highly variable temperatures and …

Mangroves provide blue carbon ecological value at a low freshwater cost

KW Krauss, CE Lovelock, L Chen, U Berger, MC Ball… - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract “Blue carbon” wetland vegetation has a limited freshwater requirement. One type,
mangroves, utilizes less freshwater during transpiration than adjacent terrestrial ecoregions …

Direct uptake of canopy rainwater causes turgor-driven growth spurts in the mangrove Avicennia marina

K Steppe, MW Vandegehuchte… - Tree …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Mangrove forests depend on a dense structure of sufficiently large trees to fulfil their
essential functions as providers of food and wood for animals and people, CO2 sinks and …

Harvesting water from unsaturated atmospheres: deliquescence of salt secreted onto leaf surfaces drives reverse sap flow in a dominant arid climate mangrove …

RE Coopman, HT Nguyen, M Mencuccini… - New …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The mangrove Avicennia marina adjusts internal salt concentrations by foliar salt secretion.
Deliquescence of accumulated salt causes leaf wetting that may provide a water source for …

Seasonal variations of net ecosystem (CO2) exchange in the Indian tropical mangrove forest of Pichavaram

P Gnanamoorthy, V Selvam, PKD Burman… - Estuarine, Coastal and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Mangrove ecosystems play a crucial role in the global carbon cycle. However, the carbon
fluxes in the mangrove ecosystems found in the Indian subcontinent are not well …

Modelling mangrove forest structure and species composition over tidal inundation gradients: The feedback between plant water use and porewater salinity in an arid …

J Bathmann, R Peters, R Reef, U Berger… - Agricultural and Forest …, 2021 - Elsevier
Conceptual models have described mangrove forest structure in response to tidal
inundation, porewater salinity and mangrove water use, however, the importance of …