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Mangroves give cause for conservation optimism, for now

Friess DA 1 , Yando ES 2 , Abuchahla GMO 3 , Adams JB 4 , Cannicci S 5 , Canty SWJ 6 Show all authors , Cavanaugh KC 7 , Connolly RM 8 , Cormier N 9 , Dahdouh-Guebas F 10 , Diele K 11 , Feller IC 12 , Fratini S 13 , Jennerjahn TC 14 , Lee SY 15 , Ogurcak DE 16 , Ouyang X 17 , Rogers K 18 , Rowntree JK 19 , Sharma S 20 , Sloey TM 21 , Wee AKS 22

Affiliations 

  • 1 Department of Geography, National University of Singapore, 1 Arts Link, Singapore 117570; Mangrove Specialist Group, International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN). Electronic address: dan.friess@nus.edu.sg
  • 2 Department of Geography, National University of Singapore, 1 Arts Link, Singapore 117570
  • 3 Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research, Fahrenheitstrasse 6, 28359 Bremen, Germany
  • 4 Institute for Coastal & Marine Research, Department of Botany, Nelson Mandela University, PO Box 77000, Port Elizabeth, 6031, South Africa
  • 5 Mangrove Specialist Group, International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN); The Swire Institute of Marine Science and School of Biological Sciences, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China; Department of Biology, University of Florence, via Madonna del Piano 6, Sesto Fiorentino, 50019, Italy
  • 6 Working Land and Seascapes, Conservation Commons, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 20013, USA; Smithsonian Marine Station, Fort Pierce, FL 34949, USA; Ecology and Environment Research Centre, Department of Natural Sciences, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Manchester Metropolitan University, Chester St, Manchester M1 5GD, UK
  • 7 Department of Geography, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
  • 8 Australian Rivers Institute - Coast & Estuaries, School of Environment and Science, Griffith University, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia 4222
  • 9 Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Macquarie University, NSW 2109, Australia
  • 10 Mangrove Specialist Group, International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN); Laboratory of Systems Ecology and Resource Management, Département de Biologie des Organismes, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Avenue F.D. Roosevelt 50, CPi 264/1, 1050, Brussels, Belgium; Ecology & Biodiversity, Laboratory of Plant Biology and Nature Management, Biology Department, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Pleinlaan 2, VUB-APNA-WE, 1050, Brussels, Belgium
  • 11 Edinburgh Napier University, School of Applied Sciences, Sighthill Court, Edinburgh EH11 4BN, UK; St Abbs Marine Station, The Harbour, St Abbs TD14 5QF, UK
  • 12 Mangrove Specialist Group, International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN); Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, Edgewater, MD 21037, USA
  • 13 Mangrove Specialist Group, International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN); Department of Biology, University of Florence, via Madonna del Piano 6, Sesto Fiorentino, 50019, Italy
  • 14 Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research, Fahrenheitstrasse 6, 28359 Bremen, Germany; Faculty of Geosciences, University of Bremen, Klagenfurter Strasse, 28359 Bremen, Germany
  • 15 Mangrove Specialist Group, International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN); Simon F S Li Marine Science Laboratory, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong SAR, China
  • 16 Institute of Environment, Florida International University, 11200 SW 8th Street, Miami, FL, USA
  • 17 Simon F S Li Marine Science Laboratory, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong SAR, China
  • 18 School of Earth, Atmospheric and Life Sciences, University of Wollongong, Wollongong 2522, Australia
  • 19 Ecology and Environment Research Centre, Department of Natural Sciences, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Manchester Metropolitan University, Chester St, Manchester M1 5GD, UK
  • 20 Institute of Ocean and Earth Sciences, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur 50603 Malaysia
  • 21 Division of Science, Yale-NUS College, 28 College Ave West, 138533, Singapore
  • 22 Guangxi Key Laboratory of Forest Ecology and Conservation, College of Forestry, Guangxi University, Daxuedonglu 100, Nanning 530004, China
Curr Biol, 2020 02 24;30(4):R153-R154.
PMID: 32097637 DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2019.12.054

Abstract

Friess et al. discuss the results of conservation efforts for mangrove forests in recent years.

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