This chapter revisits the status of Philippines' mangroves, its current and future threats and analyzes the mechanisms on how various stakeholders put efforts to address those threats. We found out that while a number of successful conservation and restoration efforts have been made, there are ...
Philippines, Solomon Islands, and Timor-Leste, comprises 5.7 million km2of the Pacific Ocean. It is one of the most bio-diverse marine eco-regions on the planet, as well as a global hotspot for seagrass species. Many sea creatures of this eco-region rely on the seagrass ecosystem, especiall...
Mangroves as a protection from storm surges in a changing climate In the future climate change scenario, vulnerable population and GDP at risk would increase by 103 and 233 %. The greatest risk is in East Asia, ... B Blankespoor,S Dasgupta,GM Lange - 《Ambio》 被引量: 9发表: 2017年 ...
quality of mangroves are mostly focused on large mangroves, such as Zhanjiang (Liu et al., 2012) and Dongzhai Harbor mangroves in China (Zhong et al., 2021), the world's largest Sundarbans Mangrove (Kumar et al., 2023), and Butuan Bay mangroves in Philippines (Navarro et al., 2022)....
This large shallow area encompasses a variety of coastal habitats (e.g., mangroves, salt marsh, sea grass, corals and rocky reefs) and supports a diverse seaweed flora. Seaweeds are considered one of the valuable sea resources for blue economic development in Bangladesh (Hossain et al., 2014...
PHILIPPINESMANGROVE ecologyMANGROVE plantsECOSYSTEMSENVIRONMENTAL protectionBIODIVERSITYENVIRONMENTAL degradationEleven species of true mangroves species were observed in selected study sites of Sta. Cruz, Candelaria, Masinloc and Palauig, Zambales. All the mangrove species belong to Division Tracheophyt...
Mangroves of the Magdalena River Delta therefore offer the possibility to assess the effectiveness of protection in maintaining mangrove ecological quality by comparing, for example, the severity of anthropogenic disturbance, forest structure, regeneration potential and C stocks of mangroves within PAs and...
N. fruticans is a true mangrove plant of the genus Nypa in the Arecaceae family, growing in estuaries and bays with low salinity where tides and fresh water meet, which is an important part of the mangroves in East Asia [12,13]. N. fruticans not only has the ecological value of ...
The category of medicinal marine organisms falls into 17 biological taxa, consisting of one phylum of cyanobacteria; four phyla of algae; two phyla of salt marsh vascular plants, mangroves and seashore associated embryophytes; and 10 phyla of Mar. Drugs 2016, 14, 46 4 of 27 animals. For ...