Mangroves are woody trees that can live on the land or in sea, and they found tropical subtropical coastal regions. Because mangroves along land-ocean boundary, unique plants provide several benefits to nature humans. For example, refuge food for organisms, hurricane protection, water filtration; also promote release of oxygen into atmosphere uptake trapping carbon dioxide, which helps fight ag...

Mangrove ecosystems are one of the most valuable and productive coastal ecosystems and provide a wide range of ecosystem services. These services are of value to local, national, and international communities and include provisioning (fuel wood, timber, poles, posts, charcoal, and nonwood products—such as food, thatch, fodder, medicine, and fisheries), regulating (carbon sequestration, shorelin...

The happiest teacher should have married ‘three wives’, namely: teaching, research and social service. I did so for the sake of mangroves: sites of ecological wonder and scenic splendor. Boat rides through the sun-dappled waterways in the mangrove forests attracted me. The breath-taking beauty of the coastal forest, with its arching roots, breathing roots, salt-vomiting leaves and ‘mud dancing’...

Three species of Thinophilus Wahlberg are recorded from mangroves near Shenzhen (China). Two species new to science are described and illustrated: T. dongae sp. nov. and T. zhuae sp. nov. In addition, Thinophilus lamellaris Zhu, Yang & Masunaga originally described from Hainan (China) is reported here. Females of this species are described for the first time and variability in male characters i...

Mangroves can capture and store organic carbon and their protection and therefore their restoration is a component of climate change mitigation. However, there are few empirical measurements of long-term carbon storage in mangroves or of how storage varies across environmental gradients. The context dependency of this process combined with geographically limited field sampling has made it diffi...

A wide investigation was conducted into the main organic matter (OM) sources supporting coral reef trophic networks in the lagoon of New Caledonia. Sampling included different reef locations (fringing, intermediate and barrier reef), different associated ecosystems (mangroves and seagrass beds) and rivers. In total, 30 taxa of macrophytes, plus pools of particulate and sedimentary OM (POM and S...