Mangrove Wetland Restoration and Rehabilitation

Dear Colleagues,

Mangrove forests are critical sources of goods and services to society in tropical and subtropical latitudes. However, despite their ecological and economic value, they have been negatively impacted at different local and regional scales in the last 60 years. Causes driving the global reduction in area include the conversion of forest to urban and agriculture/aquaculture areas and indirect human impacts due to hydrological alterations that trigger landscape level loss of critical ecological services such as biodiversity, coastal protection, fisheries, and carbon sequestration. Any wetland loss underscores the urgency of implementing better management of current healthy mangrove areas. Nevertheless, we lack data and information to develop effective strategies for the conservation and sustainability of mangrove wetlands under different levels of deterioration and environmental settings. Thus, a comparative analysis of “what works” and “what does not“ when rehabilitating or restoring mangrove wetlands is needed. For this Special Issue, we encourage studies from all fields, including experimental and observational studies, monitoring approaches, and modeling. This collective effort will help to synthesize the most recent “lessons learned” to continue advancing knowledge, understanding, and adaptation strategies to protect and conserve one of the most productive ecosystems in the world.

Dr. Victor H. Rivera-Monroy
Dr. Xosé Lois Otero-Pérez
Dr. Jorge Lopez-Portillo
Prof. Dr. Tiago Osorio Ferreira
Guest Editors

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