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Ming-Cheng Hu, Yu-Qing Guo, Yi-Jia Shih, Kai Liu, Chun-Xue Li, Fen-Fen Ji and Ta-Jen Chu
The invasion of Spartina alterniflora is one of the main threats faced by mangrove wetlands in Quanzhou Bay, Fujian. To effectively manage S. alterniflora, mangrove plants (Kandelia obovata, Aegiceras corniculatum, Bruguiera gymnorhiza, Rhizophora stylos...
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Amartya K. Saha, Japhet Kashaigili, Fredrick Mashingia, Halima Kiwango, Mercy Asha Mohamed, Michael Kimaro, Mathias Msafiri Igulu, Patroba Matiku, Rosemary Masikini, Rashid Tamatamah, Ismail Omary, Tumaini Magesa, Pendo Hyera, Roman Evarist and Maria C. Donoso
Land use changes and mounting water demands reduce freshwater inflows into estuaries, impairing estuarine ecosystems and accelerating coastal seawater intrusion. However, determining minimum river inflows for management guidelines is hampered by a lack o...
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Kit-Ling Lam, Yu-Hin Lam, Angie Ying-Sim Ng, Ken Kwok-Yin So, Nora Fung-Yee Tam, Fred Wang-Fat Lee and Wing-Yin Mo
Mangrove wetlands are vulnerable coastal ecosystems that provide critical habitats for aquatic life. Tai O is a popular tourist village on Lantau Island, Hong Kong, which is surrounded by mangrove wetlands with rich biodiversity; and this village is also...
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Siriporn Pradit, Prakrit Noppradit, Pei-Sun Loh, Thongchai Nitiratsuwan, Thi Phuong Quynh Le, Chantha Oeurng, Che Abd Rahim Mohamed, Choon Weng Lee, Xixi Lu, Gusti Z. Anshari, Selvaraj Kandasamy and Jianjun Wang
Mangroves are areas that connect the land and sea, and are important to the ecosystem. They are important places for food sources and the habitat of aquatic fauna in the tidal areas. However, the existence of plastic debris poses a risk to the aquatic en...
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Ta-Jen Chu, Yi-Jia Shih, Chun-Han Shih, Jia-Qiao Wang, Liang-Min Huang and Shu-Chen Tsai
A simple model was developed to select indicator species based on individual species? contributions to biodiversity. Targeting biodiversity can be used for environmental monitoring and to inform restoration designs.
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Sathy A. Naidu, Kandasamy Kathiresan, Jeffrey H. Simonson, Arny L. Blanchard, Christian J. Sanders, Alexander Pérez, Ruth M. Post, Thanumalaya Subramoniam, Raj A. Naidu and Rajendran Narender
Differences in grain size, total organic carbon (OC), total nitrogen (TN), OC/TN ratios, and stable isotope (d13C and d15N) were assessed in sediments from areas covered by mangrove and saltmarsh vegetation within Pichavaram estuary (Southeast India). Th...
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Guirong Wu, Kang Mei, Caimei He, Sujuan Wang and Liling Jiang
Increasing arsenic (As) pollution is posing potential endangerment to mangrove wetland ecosystems. Mangrove phytoextraction, translocation, and responses to As exposure must be urgently addressed. In this study, the growth and physiological response of K...
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Ta-Jen Chu, Chun-Han Shih, Yu-Ming Lu, Yi-Jia Shih, Jia-Qiao Wang and Liang-Ming Huang
This paper presents an approach for incorporating species-conditional co-occurrence into models used for the selection of marine indicator species. Mangrove invasion within the Siangshan Wetland in Hsinchu, Taiwan, has changed the original structures and...
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Ovel Díaz-García,Jorge Zavala-Hidalgo,Pascal Douillet,Adolfo Contreras Ruiz-Esparza,Renaud Fichez,Christian Grenz,Lionel Denis
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Floods caused by intense cold fronts and how they could change under different scenarios of sea level rise in the Terminos Lagoon, Mexico, are studied through the analysis of observations and numerical simulations. The numerical ocean model used is the F...
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Jiaxing Xu, Derrick Y. F. Lai and Suvadip Neogi
Changes in land use types can alter the soil and environmental characteristics of wetlands, which in turn influence the magnitude of greenhouse gas production by soil microbes. However, the effects of land use change on the production potential of methan...
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