Book Description
Gives readers an exciting glimpse into animals and their habitats while illuminating curriculum concepts related to food webs and biomes.
Author : Rebecca Hogue Wojahn
Publisher : Lerner Publications
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 10,72 MB
Release : 2009-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0822576155
Gives readers an exciting glimpse into animals and their habitats while illuminating curriculum concepts related to food webs and biomes.
Author : Donald Wojahn
Publisher : Lerner Publications
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 26,32 MB
Release : 2009-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0761357165
Welcome to a Southeast Asian mangrove forest! As you wade through the tangle of mangrove roots, it’s hard to tell where the ocean ends and the land begins. The mangrove forest is humming with life. A dog-faced water snake lures a school of archerfish with her wiggling tail, and a macaque swings through the branches in search of mangrove apples. Day and night in the mangrove forest, the hunt is on to find food - and to avoid becoming someone else’s next meal. All living things are connected to one another in a food chain, from animal to animal, animal to plant, plant to insect, and insect to animal. What path will you take to follow the food chain through the mangrove forest? Will you ... Creep along the branches with a clouded leopard as it stalks a wild pig? Play with otters as they wait for their shellfish to open in the sun? Soar through the dark with a flying fox in search of flowers and seeds? Follow all three chains and many more on this who-eats-what adventure!
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Publisher : American Geophysical Union
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 40,64 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Mangrove ecology
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Author : Victor H. Rivera-Monroy
Publisher : Springer
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 34,93 MB
Release : 2017-11-03
Category : Science
ISBN : 3319622064
This book presents a comprehensive overview and analysis of mangrove ecological processes, structure, and function at the local, biogeographic, and global scales and how these properties interact to provide key ecosystem services to society. The analysis is based on an international collaborative effort that focuses on regions and countries holding the largest mangrove resources and encompasses the major biogeographic and socio-economic settings of mangrove distribution. Given the economic and ecological importance of mangrove wetlands at the global scale, the chapters aim to integrate ecological and socio-economic perspectives on mangrove function and management using a system-level hierarchical analysis framework. The book explores the nexus between mangrove ecology and the capacity for ecosystem services, with an emphasis on thresholds, multiple stressors, and local conditions that determine this capacity. The interdisciplinary approach and illustrative study cases included in the book will provide valuable resources in data, information, and knowledge about the current status of one of the most productive coastal ecosystem in the world.
Author : Daniel Alongi
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 41,58 MB
Release : 2009-01-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 140204271X
Despite their importance in sustaining livelihoods for many people living along some of the world’s most populous coastlines, tropical mangrove forests are disappearing at an alarming rate. Occupying a crucial place between land and sea, these tidal ecosystems provide a valuable ecological and economic resource as important nursery grounds and breeding sites for many organisms, and as a renewable source of wood and traditional foods and medicines. Perhaps most importantly, they are accumulation sites for sediment, contaminants, carbon and nutrients, and offer significant protection against coastal erosion. This book presents a functional overview of mangrove forest ecosystems; how they live and grow at the edge of tropical seas, how they play a critical role along most of the world’s tropical coasts, and how their future might look in a world affected by climate change. Such a process-oriented approach is necessary in order to further understand the role of these dynamic forests in ecosystem function, and as a first step towards developing adequate strategies for their conservation and sustainable use and management. The book will provide a valuable resource for researchers in mangrove ecology as well as reference for resource managers.
Author : Robert F. Scharpf
Publisher :
Page : 782 pages
File Size : 28,59 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Dwarf mistletoes
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Author : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Forest Resources Development Branch
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 49,91 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789251034453
Author : Sahadev Sharma
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 17,56 MB
Release : 2021-09-29
Category : Science
ISBN : 1839627999
Mangroves serve as one of the nature-based solutions for coastal communities. We are now almost at the tipping point where we can restore mangroves ecologically to mitigate climate change and enhance other important ecosystem services under the United Nations Decade on Ecosystem Restoration. Mangrove Ecosystem Restoration focuses on mangrove ecosystem restoration, the ecosystem services mangroves provide, and how to manage and conserve mangroves. The three sections include eight chapters that cover such topics as evaluating mangrove degradation, forest recovery through seedling recruitment, natural regeneration of mangroves, advanced molecular biology for restoring mangroves, and more.
Author : Stuart E. Hamilton
Publisher : Springer
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 45,74 MB
Release : 2019-08-09
Category : Science
ISBN : 3030222403
This book uses five decades of map data, air photos, and medium to high-resolution satellite imagery to track the expansions of aquaculture and the loss of both estuarine and mangrove land covers in Ecuador. The results are staggering. In some regions, Ecuador has lost almost 50% of its estuarine space and approximately 80% of its mangrove forest. The current estuarine land cover bears no resemblance to the historic estuarine land cover. The analysis is complete from 1968 to 2014. The analysis covers all the major estuaries of mainland Ecuador. The research expands beyond purely land cover into the land use of the estuaries and the implications of the land cover transitions. The author lived in Ecuador's estuarine environments for almost two years studying this area. During this time he conducted mapping workshops with local residents, conducted 100 interviews with local actors, conducted six group discussions with fisherfolk syndicates, conducted eight presentations, worked on a shrimp farm. He was employed by the Ministry of the Environment on a Prometeo fellowship for one-year researching estuarine health and worked on mangrove replanting projects in the estuaries. In addition to the remote sensing data, the author provides a contextual framework to the analysis. It is not just hard numbers that are presented, but a remote sensing analysis tied to local actors that tell a coherent almost 50 -year estuarine story at the national, provincial, and local scales The book is intended for researchers, academics, graduate students, NGOs, and government actors including those who work in development, environment, and policy implementation. It is suitable supplemental reading for students in courses related to the coastal zone, land use change, and remote sensing. The electronically supplementary material includes all the related data to underpin the analysis as well as all the resulting GIS files.
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Page : 474 pages
File Size : 23,33 MB
Release : 1978
Category : Forests and forestry
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