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Farid Dahdouh-Guebas holds an MSc biology, an MSc human ecology and a PhD sciences from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. His previous and current research is on tropical coastal ecosystems and includes remote sensing of seagrass distributions, feeding ecology and behavioral ecology of mangrove crabs and ongoing research on mangrove vegetation structure dynamics (using very high resolution remote sensing) and biocomplexity (incl. human factors). His address: Laboratory of General Botany and Nature Management, Mangrove Management Group, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Nico Koedam was trained as a biologist and started physio-ecological research on temperate forest plants. Besides an ecology, biogeography and nature management teaching assignment, he is now heading the research unit General Botany and Nature Management of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, which has major ongoing vegetation research programs (remote sensing and field analysis) on Kenyan, Sri Lankan and Indian mangrove ecosystems (Indian Ocean);

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