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      Seascape ecology of coastal biogenic habitats: advances, gaps, and challenges

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      Journal: Marine Ecology Progress Series
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          Depletion, degradation, and recovery potential of estuaries and coastal seas.

          Heike K. Lotze, Hunter Lenihan, Bruce Bourque … (2006)
          Estuarine and coastal transformation is as old as civilization yet has dramatically accelerated over the past 150 to 300 years. Reconstructed time lines, causes, and consequences of change in 12 once diverse and productive estuaries and coastal seas worldwide show similar patterns: Human impacts have depleted >90% of formerly important species, destroyed >65% of seagrass and wetland habitat, degraded water quality, and accelerated species invasions. Twentieth-century conservation efforts achieved partial recovery of upper trophic levels but have so far failed to restore former ecosystem structure and function. Our results provide detailed historical baselines and quantitative targets for ecosystem-based management and marine conservation.
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            Mangrove Forests: One of the World's Threatened Major Tropical Environments

            Ivan Valiela, JENNIFER L. BOWEN, JOANNA YORK (2001)
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              Mangroves enhance the biomass of coral reef fish communities in the Caribbean.

              Peter Mumby, Alasdair Edwards, J. Ernesto Arias-González … (2004)
              Mangrove forests are one of the world's most threatened tropical ecosystems with global loss exceeding 35% (ref. 1). Juvenile coral reef fish often inhabit mangroves, but the importance of these nurseries to reef fish population dynamics has not been quantified. Indeed, mangroves might be expected to have negligible influence on reef fish communities: juvenile fish can inhabit alternative habitats and fish populations may be regulated by other limiting factors such as larval supply or fishing. Here we show that mangroves are unexpectedly important, serving as an intermediate nursery habitat that may increase the survivorship of young fish. Mangroves in the Caribbean strongly influence the community structure of fish on neighbouring coral reefs. In addition, the biomass of several commercially important species is more than doubled when adult habitat is connected to mangroves. The largest herbivorous fish in the Atlantic, Scarus guacamaia, has a functional dependency on mangroves and has suffered local extinction after mangrove removal. Current rates of mangrove deforestation are likely to have severe deleterious consequences for the ecosystem function, fisheries productivity and resilience of reefs. Conservation efforts should protect connected corridors of mangroves, seagrass beds and coral reefs.
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                Title: Marine Ecology Progress Series
                Abbreviated Title: Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser.
                Publisher: Inter-Research Science Center
                ISSN (Print): 0171-8630
                ISSN (Electronic): 1616-1599
                Publication date Created: April 12 2011
                Publication date (Print): April 12 2011
                Volume: 427
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                Pages: 191-217
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                DOI: 10.3354/meps09051
                SO-VID: b59088c8-30b8-45de-aa43-940ce7ebed38
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