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By Daniel M. Alongi

Despite their value in maintaining livelihoods for lots of humans dwelling alongside a number of the world’s so much populous coastlines, tropical mangrove forests are disappearing at an alarming fee. Occupying a very important position among land and sea, those tidal ecosystems supply a important ecological and fiscal source as very important nursery grounds and breeding websites for plenty of organisms, and as a renewable resource of wooden and standard meals and drugs. maybe most significantly, they're accumulation websites for sediment, contaminants, carbon and nutrition, and provide major defense opposed to coastal erosion.


This booklet provides a useful evaluate of mangrove woodland ecosystems; how they reside and develop on the fringe of tropical seas, how they play a serious position alongside lots of the world’s tropical coasts, and the way their destiny may well glance in an international stricken by weather swap. this kind of process-oriented method is critical as a way to additional comprehend the position of those dynamic forests in environment functionality, and as a primary step in the direction of constructing sufficient concepts for his or her conservation and sustainable use and administration. The ebook will offer a necessary source for researchers in mangrove ecology in addition to reference for source managers.

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