A5086019733- Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics
- Marine and coastal plant biology
- Plant and Fungal Species Descriptions
- Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies
- Genetic diversity and population structure
- Oil Palm Production and Sustainability
- Coastal and Marine Dynamics
- Marine and fisheries research
- Agricultural and Environmental Management
- Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
- Coastal and Marine Management
- Oil Spill Detection and Mitigation
- Botany, Ecology, and Taxonomy Studies
- Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies
- Plant Diversity and Evolution
- Microbial bioremediation and biosurfactants
- Fish Ecology and Management Studies
- Aeolian processes and effects
- Marine Biology and Ecology Research
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration
- Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Identification and Quantification in Food
- Plant responses to water stress
James Cook University
2015-2024
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
1990-2024
International Union for Conservation of Nature
2022
International Union for Conservation of Nature (Bangladesh)
2020
Instituto de Ciencias Agrarias
2020
International Union for Conservation of Nature (United Kingdom)
2020
University of Surrey
2020
Zoological Society of London
2019
The University of Queensland
1999-2011
Griffith University
2008
ABSTRACT Aim Our scientific understanding of the extent and distribution mangrove forests world is inadequate. The available global databases, compiled using disparate geospatial data sources national statistics, need to be improved. Here, we mapped status distributions mangroves recently Global Land Survey (GLS) Landsat archive. Methods We interpreted approximately 1000 scenes hybrid supervised unsupervised digital image classification techniques. Each was normalized for variation in solar...
Mangrove species are uniquely adapted to tropical and subtropical coasts, although relatively low in number of species, mangrove forests provide at least US $1.6 billion each year ecosystem services support coastal livelihoods worldwide. Globally, areas declining rapidly as they cleared for development aquaculture logged timber fuel production. Little is known about the effects area loss on individual local or regional populations. To address this gap, species-specific information global...
Mangrove forests are highly productive but globally threatened coastal ecosystems, whose role in the carbon budget of zone has long been debated. Here we provide a comprehensive synthesis available data on fluxes mangrove ecosystems. A reassessment global primary production from literature results conservative estimate ∼218 ± 72 Tg C −1 . When using best estimates various sinks (organic export, sediment burial, and mineralization), it appears that >50% fixed by vegetation is unaccounted...
Numerous factors affect the distribution of mangrove plants.Most species are typically dispersed by.water-buoyant propagules, allowing them to take advantage estuarine, coastal and ocean currents both replenish existing stands establish new ones.The direction they travel depends on sea land barriers, but dispersal distance time that propagules remain buoyant viable.This is expected differ for each species.Similarly, will also in establishment success growth development rate, has tolerance...
This study records and documents the most severe notable instance ever reported of sudden widespread dieback mangrove vegetation. Between late 2015 early 2016, extensive areas tidal wetland vegetation died back along 1000km shoreline Australia’s remote Gulf Carpentaria. The cause is not fully explained, but timing was coincident with an extreme weather event; notably one high temperatures low precipitation lacking storm winds. widespread, affecting more than 7400ha or 6% in affected area...
Abstract Globally, collapse of ecosystems—potentially irreversible change to ecosystem structure, composition and function—imperils biodiversity, human health well‐being. We examine the current state recent trajectories 19 ecosystems, spanning 58° latitude across 7.7 M km 2 , from Australia's coral reefs terrestrial Antarctica. Pressures global climate regional impacts, occurring as chronic ‘presses’ and/or acute ‘pulses’, drive collapse. Ecosystem responses 5–17 pressures were categorised...
(1) Leaf fall and reproductive phenology of Avicennia marina assessed during 1982-83 using litter collections from twenty-five sites in Australia, Papua New Guinea Zealand revealed major trends with latitude. Flowering shifted November- December northern tropical sites, to May-June southern temperate sites. Periods between flowering fruiting increased two three months ten southernmost was more variable unimodal annual peaks often multimodal patterns the tropics. (2) Correlative evaluation...
Mangroves are key components of coastal ecosystems in tropical and subtropical regions worldwide. However, the patterns mechanisms modern distribution mangroves still not well understood. Historical vicariance dispersal two hypothetic biogeographic processes shaping present-day species distributions. Here we investigate evolutionary biogeography Indo-West Pacific (IWP) western Atlantic-East (AEP) using a large sample populations Rhizophora (the most representative mangrove genus) combination...
Abstract Mangroves invade some very marginal habitats for woody plants—at the interface between land and sea. Since mangroves anchor tropical coastal communities globally, their origin, diversification adaptation are of scientific significance, particularly at a time global climate change. In this study, combination single-molecule long reads more conventional short generated from Rhizophora apiculata de novo assembly its genome to near chromosome level. The longest scaffold, N50 N90 R....
Allopatric speciation requiring an unbroken period of geographical isolation has been the standard model neo-Darwinism. While doubts have repeatedly raised, strict allopatry without any gene flow remains a plausible mechanism in most cases. To rigorously reject allopatry, genomic sequences superimposed on geological records well-delineated barrier are necessary. The Strait Malacca, narrowly connecting Pacific and Indian Ocean coasts, serves at different times either as or conduit for...
Mangrove ecosystems provide important ecological benefits and ecosystem services, including carbon storage coastline stabilization, but they also suffer great anthropogenic pressures. Microorganisms associated with mangrove sediments the rhizosphere play key roles in this make essential contributions to its productivity budget. Understanding nexus moving from descriptive studies of microbial taxonomy hypothesis-driven field lab will facilitate a mechanistic understanding interaction webs...