Preface Ariel E. Lugo
Chapter 1. Introduction Victor H. Rivera-Monroy, Shing Yip Lee, Erik Kristensen, Robert R. Twilley
Chapter 2. Mangrove Floristics and Biogeography Revisited: Further Deductions from Bodiversity Hot Spots, Ancestral Discontinuities and Common Evolutionary Processes
Norman C. Duke
Chapter 3. Biodiversity; Shing Yip Lee, E. B. Gareth Jones, Gustavo Castellanos-Galindo, Inga Nordhaus
Chapter 4. Spatial Ecology of Mangrove Forests: A Remote Sensing Perspective Richard Lucas, Alma Vázquez Lule, María Teresa Rodríguez, Muhammad Kamal, Nathan Thomas, Emma Asbridge, Claudia Kuenzer
Chapter 5. Productivity and Carbon Dynamics in Mangrove Wetlands Robert R. Twilley, Edward Castañeda-Moya, Victor H. Rivera-Monroy, Andre Rovai
Chapter 6. Biogeochemical Cycles: Global Approaches and Perspectives Erik Kristensen, Rod M. Connolly, Xose L. Otero, Cyril Marchand, Tiago O. Ferreira, Victor H. Rivera-Monroy
Chapter 7. Mangrove Ecosystems and Climate Change T.C. Jennerjahn, E. Gilman, K.W. Krauss, L.D. Lacerda, I. Nordhaus, E. Wolanski
Chapter 8. Mangroves and People: Local Ecosystem Services in a Changing Climate Mark Huxham, Amrit Dencer-Brown, Karen Diele, Kandasamy Kathiresan, Ivan Nagelkerken, Caroline Wanjiru
Chapter 9. Anthropogenic Drivers of Mangrove Loss: Geographic Patterns and Implications for Livelihoods
Rinku Roy Chowdhury, Emi Uchida, Luzhen Chen, Victor Osorio, Landon Yoder
Chapter 10. Mangrove Forest Restoration and Rehabilitation Jorge López Portillo, Roy R. "Robin" Lewis III, Peter Saenger, André Rovai, Nico Koedam, Farid Dahdouh-Guebas, Claudia Agraz-Hernández, Victor H. Rivera-Monroy
Chapter 11. Advancing Mangrove Macroecology Victor H. Rivera-Monroy, Michael J. Osland, John W. Day, Santanu Ray, Andre Rovai, Richard R. Day, Joyita Mukherjee Epilogue Shing Yip, Lee, Victor H. Rivera-Monroy, Erik Kristensen, Robert Twilley
Appendix -Affiliation of authors, biosketches;
Subject index (including species)
Geographic index

About the Author:

Victor H. Rivera-Monroy is associate professor in the Department of Oceanography and Coastal Sciences, College of the Coast and Environment at Louisiana State University. He has performed ecological studies in mangrove-dominated ecosystems for the last 20 years in Latin America, particularly research on biogeochemistry, wetland productivity and restoration issues. Currently he is member of both the Florida Coastal Everglades (FCE) Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) program funded by the US National Science Foundation and the Mexican LTER program.

Shing Yip (Joe) Lee is a professor at the School of Life Sciences and director of the Simon S.F. Li Marine Science Laboratory at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. His work on mangroves is focused on the ecosystem processes of mangroves, particularly the role of key fauna in trophodynamics. He has been working on mangroves in Southeast Asia and Australia since 1985. He was appointed founding co-chair of the

Erik Kristensen is professor at the Institute of Biology, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark. For over three decades he has traveled to many mangrove areas in Africa, Asia and Australia to do his research. This has been a simple necessity given the lack of mangrove forests in his home country. His research is focused on carbon, sulfur, iron and nitrogen biogeochemistry in mangrove sediments as well as food web dynamics among mangrove benthos.

Robert R. Twilley is professor in the Department of Oceanography and coastal Sciences, College of the Coast and Environment at Louisiana State University. He has performed research in new and old world mangrove ecosystems during the last 25 years, with emphasis on system ecology and biogeochemistry, conceptual and simulation models, coastal ecosystem restoration and nutrient dynamics. He is currently the executive director of the LSU-based Louisiana Sea Grant Col