Dynamic Sedimentary Environments of Mangrove Coasts

A much needed reference on the importance of sedimentary dynamics in managing mangrove forests, mangrove restoration, and coastal management

Daniel Friess (Edited by), Frida Sidik (Edited by)

9780128164372, Elsevier Science

Paperback, published 11 December 2020

650 pages
23.4 x 19 x 4 cm, 1.38 kg

Dynamic Sedimentary Environments of Mangrove Coasts provides knowledge on the importance of sedimentary dynamics in managing mangrove forests. In the first part of the book, the editors seamlessly offer a general introduction of mangrove sedimentary dynamics. This leads into more in-depth information on soil surface elevation change, sea level rise, and the importance of sedimentary dynamics in the loss or gain of blue carbon. The book concludes the discussion of mangrove sedimentary dynamics by addressing the issues of climate change (e.g. sea level rise and blue carbon) on mangrove restoration and sediment.This book will assist coastal managers and academics in addressing the gaps in mangrove restoration and coastal management. As such, it will be a valuable reference for advanced undergraduate students, graduate students, researchers, academics in the field of coastal restoration, and coastal management practitioners.

Introduction

Part 1. Biogeomorphological processes
1. Biogeomorphic evolution and expansion of mangrove forests in New Zealand’s sediment-rich estuarine systems
2. Mangroves: a natural early warning system of erosion of open muddy coasts in French Guiana
3. Groundwater research in mangrove coastal ecosystems - new prospects
4. Flow and sediment dynamics around structures in mangrove ecosystems - a modelling perspective
5. Morphological plasticity and survival thresholds of mangrove plants growing in active sedimentary environments
6. Microbial communities in mangrove sediments

Part 2. Long-term sedimentary processes and sea-level rise
7. The history of surface-elevation paradigms in mangrove biogeomorphology
8. Radiocarbon dating of mangrove sediments
9. Australian mangroves through the Holocene: interactions between sea-level, mangrove extent and carbon sequestration
10. Responses of mangrove ecosystems to sea level change
11. Does geomorphology determine vulnerability of mangrove coasts to sea-level rise?

Part 3. Blue Carbon
12. Environmental drivers of blue carbon burial and soil carbon stocks in mangrove forests
13. Gaps and opportunities in mangrove blue carbon research: a biogeographic perspective
14. State of biogeochemical blue carbon in South Asian mangroves
15. Quantity and quality of organic matter in mangrove sediments
16. Relevance of allochthonous input from an agriculture-dominated hinterland for 'blue carbon' storage in mangrove sediments in Java, Indonesia
17. Potential carbon loss in sediment through methane production during early development stage of mangrove regeneration in restored mangroves
18. Blue carbon storage comparing mangroves with salt marsh and seagrass habitats at a warm temperate continental limit
19. Mangrove carbon sequestration and sediment deposition changes under cordgrass invasion

Part 4. Mangrove management and restoration
20. A framework for the quantitative assessment of mangrove resilience
21. Assessment of typhoon impacts and post-typhoon recovery in Philippine mangroves: Lessons and challenges for adaptive management
22. Managing sediment dynamics through reintroduction of tidal flow for mangrove restoration in abandoned aquaculture ponds
23. Impacts of forestry on mangrove sediment dynamics

Conclusions

Subject Areas: Applied ecology [RNC], The environment [RN]