18 June 2008

Special Issue of Aquatic Botany on ‘Mangrove ecology – applications in forestry and coastal zone management’ dedicated to the memory of Samuel C. Snedaker.

This Special Issue is in my opinion complementary to the Special Issue of Global Ecology and Biogeography Letters 7(1) edited by C.B. Field & R.J. Whittaker in 1998, and, to the Special Issue of Journal of Sea Research 59(1-2) on Mangrove Macrobenthos edited by S.Y. Lee and S. Dittmann earlier this year, and we hope it is a worthy update of some major themes in mangrove research worldwide.

No less than 54 authors originating from institutes on all continents have contributed to the successful finalisation of this special issue, and are hereby thanked by the Editors.

On behalf of my Co-Guest Editor Nico Koedam and myself, I take the opportunity to thank Elsevier Science and its Aquatic Botany staff, and to Jan Vermaat, Editor-in-Chief of the journal. 

We hope you will all be delighted reading the papers below, we hope that you will widely publicize the state-of-the-art mangrove reviews in our special issue and we wish you all the best in your future mangrove research.

Link to the current journal issue URL :
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/03043770

CONTENT

Ellison, A.M., 2008.  Preface. Aquat. Bot. 89(2) : 77-77.

Dahdouh-Guebas, F., Koedam, N., 2008.  Aquatic Botany special issue dedication to Samuel Curry Snedaker (22 May 1938 - 21 March 2005).  Aquat. Bot. 89(2): 78-79.

Dahdouh-Guebas, F., Koedam, N., 2008.  Long-term retrospection on mangrove development using transdisciplinary approaches: a review. Aquat. Bot. 89(2): 80-92.

Ellison, J.C., 2008. Long-term retrospection on mangrove development using sediment cores and pollen analysis: a review. Aquat. Bot. 89(2): 93-104.

Krauss, K.W., Lovelock, C.E., McKee, K.L., Lopez-Hoffman, L., Ewe, S.M., Sousa, W.P., 2008.  Environmental drivers in mangrove establishment and early development: a review. Aquat. Bot. 89(2): 105-127.

Komiyama, A., Ong, J.E., Poungparn, S., 2008.  Allometry, biomass and productivity of mangrove forests: a review.  Aquat. Bot. 89(2): 128-137.

Triest, L., 2008. Molecular ecology and biogeography of mangrove trees towards conceptual insights on gene flow and barriers: a review.  Aquat. Bot. 89(2): 138-154.

Nagelkerken, I., Blaber, S., Bouillon, S., Green, P., Haywood, M., Kirton, L.G., Meynecke, J.-O., Pawlik, J., Penrose, H.M., Sasekumar, A., Somerfield, P.J., 2008. The habitat function of mangroves for terrestrial and marina fauna: a review. Aquat. Bot. 89(2): 155-185.

Cannicci, S., Burrows, D., Fratini, S., Lee, S.Y., Smith III, T.J., Offenberg, J., Dahdouh-Guebas, F., 2008.  Faunistic impact on vegetation structure and ecosystem function in mangrove forests: a review. Aquat. Bot. 89(2): 186-200.

Kristensen, E., Bouillon, S., Dittmar, T., Marchand, C., 2008. Organic carbon dynamics in mangrove ecosystems: a review. Aquat. Bot. 89(2): 201-219.

Walters, B.B., Rönnbäck, P., Kovacs, J., Crona, B., Hussain, S., Badola, R., Primavera, J.H., Barbier, E.B., Dahdouh-Guebas, F., 2008. Ethnobiology, socio-economics and adaptive management of mangroves: a review. Aquat. Bot. 89(2): 220-236.

Gilman, E., Ellison, J., Duke, N.C., Field, C., 2008.  Threats to mangroves from climate change and adaptation options: a review. Aquat. Bot. 89(2): 237-250.

Bosire, J.O., Dahdouh-Guebas, F., Walton, M., Crona, B.I., Lewis III, R.R., Field, C., Kairo, J.G., Koedam, N., 2008. Functionality of restored mangroves: a review. Aquat. Bot. 89(2): 251-259.

Berger, U., Rivera-Monroy, V.H., Doyle, T.W., Dahdouh-Guebas, F., Duke, N., Fontalvo, M., Hildenbrandt, H., Koedam, N., Mehlig, U., Piou, C., Twilley, R.R., 2008. Advances and limitations of individual-based models to analyze and predict dynamics of mangrove forests: a review. Aquat. Bot. 89(2): 260-274.

Submitted by:  Farid Dahdouh-Guebas
AQBOT-SI Managing Guest Editor
E-mail : fdahdouh@ulb.ac.be
E-mail : fdahdouh@vub.ac.be