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Harnessing Big Data to Support the Conservation and Rehabilitation of Mangrove Forests Globally

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Peer-reviewed

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Authors

Worthington, TA 
Andradi-Brown, DA 
Bhargava, R 
Buelow, C 
Bunting, P 

Abstract

Mangrove forests are found on sheltered coastlines in tropical, subtropical, and some warm temperate regions. These forests support unique biodiversity and provide a range of benefits to coastal communities, but as a result of large-scale conversion for aquaculture, agriculture, and urbanization, mangroves are considered increasingly threatened ecosystems. Scientific advances have led to accurate and comprehensive global datasets on mangrove extent, structure, and condition, and these can support evaluation of ecosystem services and stimulate greater conservation and rehabilitation efforts. To increase the utility and uptake of these products, in this Perspective we provide an overview of these recent and forthcoming global datasets and explore the challenges of translating these new analyses into policy action and on the ground conservation. We describe a new platform for visualizing and disseminating these datasets to the global science community, non-governmental organizations, government officials, and rehabilitation practitioners and highlight future directions and collaborations to increase the uptake and impact of largescale mangrove research.

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Keywords

4101 Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation, 41 Environmental Sciences, 15 Life on Land

Journal Title

One Earth

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Journal ISSN

2590-3330
2590-3322

Volume Title

2

Publisher

Elsevier BV