Mangrove forests in Kenya have traditionally been used as a source of building poles and firewood (1–3). About 70% of the population along the Kenyan coast depend on mangrove poles for house construction (4), and the recent boom in tourism in the area over the last few decades has led to an increasing demand for mangrove poles for construction of restaurants, hotels and holiday resorts (5). The...

A sediment sample was obtained at 122 cm from the top of a drilling core in the Guapimirim mangrove, Bay of Guanabara, and analyzed using pollen analysis. This muddy core reached a sandy ground at 133 cm. 14C datation got the age of 1760 +/- 50 years B.P. The most frequent pollen grains were mangrove species of Rhizophora mangle, Laguncularia racemosa and Avicennia schaueriana. "Restinga" and t...

T mass media and scientific press have widely reported losses of tropical environments, such as felling of rain forests and bleaching of coral reefs. This well-merited attention has created a worldwide constituency that supports conservation and restoration efforts in both of these threatened ecosystems. The remarkable degree of public awareness and support has been manifested in benefit rock c...

Mangrove ecosystem is a very unique ecosystem in the Earth, which is under threat due to habitat loss, aquaculture expansion, overharvesting and increase of pollution load. In this review paper, world-wide status of mangrove habitat loss, the role of mangrove to act as a sink of pollutants and carbon capture (carbon sequestration), accumulation and biomagnifications of heavy metals is discussed...

Cavanaugh et al. (1) report conclusive evidence of poleward expansion of mangroves at the northern limit of their historic range on the east coast of Florida and associate the expansion to a reduction in the frequency of extreme cold events. We agree with their assertion that mangrove expansion has occurred in eastern Florida, resulting from a lack of extreme freeze perturbations since 1984 (2,...

the bias against mangrove areas in siting fish farms prompted a comparison of the cost structure and yield performance in upland and mangrove locations. tools utilized included descriptive statistics, budgetary and cash flow analyses and profitability ratios. empirical results revealed that substantial revenue could be realized from both farms. while the upland farms yielded average gross reven...

Aedes vigilax (Skuse), a nuisance and disease vector, is prolific in intertidal wetlands in Australia. Aedine mosquitoes oviposit directly onto substrate. The eggshells are relatively stable spatially and temporally, providing an estimate of mosquito larval production. The aims of the research were to compare, at a general level, oviposition in mangroves and saltmarshes, and to compare oviposit...

In remote sensing, traditional methodologies for image classification consider the spectral values of a pixel in different image bands. More recently, classification methods have used neighboring pixels to provide more information. In the present study, we used these more advanced techniques to discriminate between mangrove and non-mangrove regions in the Gulf of California of northwestern Mexi...

Understanding the relationship between the size of mangrove structural features and the optimum image pixel size is essential to support effective mapping activities in mangrove environments. This study developed a method to estimate the optimum image pixel size for accurately mapping mangrove features (canopy types and features (gaps, tree crown), community, and cover types) and tested the app...

Kandelia candel (L.) Druce, the dominant mangrove species on the west coast of northern Taiwan, has three distinct growth forms. To elucidate whether the growth of the dwarf form of K. candel is related to nutrient and water availability, we analyzed nutrient contents (N, P, K, Ca, Mg, Na) and carbon isotope ratios (δC) of leaves of four K. candel populations differing in canopy height. The obj...