The management of Insular Caribbean mangroves in relation to site location and community type

Bacon, Peter R.; Alleng, Gerard

doi:10.1007/978-94-017-3288-8_26

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“…Mangrove ecosystems are seriously threatened, mainly by human activities that impact the habitat of crabs (Pons and Fiselier 1991;Fouda and Al-Muharrami 1995;Farnsworth and Ellison 1997). Thus studies on these ecosystems as well as studies of animals highly dependent on them are important for establishing measures for their effective and sustainable management (Bacon and Alleng 1992;Hudson and Lester 1994;Farnsworth and Ellison 1997).…”

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Effectiveness of Two Gathering Techniques for Ucides cordatus in Northeast Brazil: Implications for the Sustainability of Mangrove Ecosystems

2009

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Effectiveness of Two Gathering Techniques for Ucides cordatus in Northeast Brazil: Implications for the Sustainability of Mangrove Ecosystems

2009

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“…Mangroves have paramount importance for coastal protection, as nurseries, and for carbon sequestration. Their conservation significance in these territories has long been recognized (Bacon and Alleng 1992). Especially in Bermuda, mangroves have been the subject of several studies (Pfingstl et al 2014, Pellerin et al 2015, Outerbridge et al 2017, Wolsak et al 2018.…”

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The future of marine biodiversity and marine ecosystem functioning in UK coastal and territorial waters (including UK Overseas Territories) – with an emphasis on marine macrophyte communities

Küpper

Kamenos

2018

Botanica Marina

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Marine biodiversity and ecosystem functioning – including seaweed communities – in the territorial waters of the UK and its Overseas Territories are facing unprecedented pressures. Key stressors are changes in ecosystem functioning due to biodiversity loss caused by ocean warming (species replacement and migration, e.g. affecting kelp forests), sea level rise (e.g. loss of habitats including salt marshes), plastic pollution (e.g. entanglement and ingestion), alien species with increasing numbers of alien seaweeds (e.g. outcompeting native species and parasite transmission), overexploitation (e.g. loss of energy supply further up the food web), habitat destruction (e.g. loss of nursery areas for commercially important species) and ocean acidification (e.g. skeletal weakening of ecosystem engineers including coralline algal beds). These stressors are currently affecting biodiversity, and their impact can be projected for the future. All stressors may act alone or in synergy. Marine biodiversity provides crucial goods and services. Climate change and biodiversity loss pose new challenges for legislation. In particular, there are implications of climate change for the designation and management of Marine Protected Areas and natural carbon storage by marine systems to help control the global climate system. The UK currently has legal obligations to protect biodiversity under international and European law.

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“…Provisioning services include (i) fisheries production [11][12][13][14][15]; (ii) production of timber and wood [1,16]; (iii) Medicinal purposes [17]. Supporting and regulating services include (i) carbon sequestration [2,18,19]; (ii) climate regulation [5,[20][21][22]; (iii) shoreline stabilization and coastal protection [23][24][25]; (iv) water filtration [26] and pollution regulation [27][28][29]; Mangroves also provide a suite of cultural and aesthetic services, which include: (i) recreation and tourism [30]; (ii) educational opportunities [5,31,32]; (iii) aesthetic and cultural values [32][33]. Cumulatively, the ecosystem services contribute to the socioeconomic wellbeing of coastal communities [5,34,35].…”

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Socio-Economic Status and Living Conditions of Coastal Communities: Impacts on the Mangrove Ecosystems in the Scarcies Estuaries, Sierra Leone, West Africa

Konoyima

Johnson

2020

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This research was conducted between the periods of March 2015 to December 2015 in the Scarcies Estuary, Sierra Leone. Participatory methods such as Focused Group Discussion (FGD), Interviews and ranking exercises were used for the assessment. The objective of this study is to assess the social and economic constraints of coastal communities, and how such constraints have influenced mangrove loss in the area. Knowledge on those is scarce for this region. The study will contribute to improving sustainable management agenda for mangrove forests in the Scarcies Estuaries. Results show a more active and productive age range of respondents (31-40 years), capable enough to make decisions that could influence resource use. A Student’s t-test showed no significant difference in sex at (P>0.05) for male (70%) and female (30%) mangrove dependents. In addition, of the various mangroves related economic activities, oyster collection and farming remained the most important with income above One Million Leones (>115USD) per week and per farming season respectively. Further, key constraints in the communities included inadequate health centers, educational facilities and lack of basic material assets. Multiple households in a dwelling unit are also a common residential arrangement in these areas. Such living conditions are in the context of the definition of poverty with such outcomes as deprived resources such as money and assets, poor health and illiteracy. Hence, it is increasingly evident that the conservation of mangroves in this region cannot be done without considering the varying impacts of poverty, gender roles and resource utilisation patterns.

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The management of Insular Caribbean mangroves in relation to site location and community type

Cited by 5 publications

References 2 publications

Effectiveness of Two Gathering Techniques for Ucides cordatus in Northeast Brazil: Implications for the Sustainability of Mangrove Ecosystems

Effectiveness of Two Gathering Techniques for Ucides cordatus in Northeast Brazil: Implications for the Sustainability of Mangrove Ecosystems

The future of marine biodiversity and marine ecosystem functioning in UK coastal and territorial waters (including UK Overseas Territories) – with an emphasis on marine macrophyte communities

Socio-Economic Status and Living Conditions of Coastal Communities: Impacts on the Mangrove Ecosystems in the Scarcies Estuaries, Sierra Leone, West Africa

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