The habitat function of mangroves for terrestrial and marine fauna: a review

By I. Nagelkerken, S. Blaber, S. Bouillon, P. Green, M. Haywood, L. Kirton, J. Meynecke, J. Pawlik, H. Penrose, A. Sasekumar and 1 more. 2008

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Subfields: Ecology, Oceanography

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The relative importance of mangroves and seagrass beds as feeding areas for resident and transient fishes among different mangrove habitats in Florida and Belize: Evidence from dietary and stable-isotope analyses (2012, background): “The complexity of mangrove prop roots, shallow shaded waters, and high food abundance are among the main factors suggested to explain the presence of diverse and abundant mangrove fish assemblages (e.g., Laegdsgaard and Johnson, 2001; Nagelkerken et al., 2008).”
Mangrove Ecosystems: A Global Biogeographic Perspective (2017, neutral): “This habitat pattern is in contrast to the benthic invertebrates (infauna; crabs, polychaetes, pistol prawns and sipunculids) that inhabit the surface or subsurface of the sediment (Leung 2015; Nagelkerken et al. 2008).”
Organic carbon dynamics in mangrove ecosystems : a review (2008, background): “The carbohydrates that rapidly leach after submersion in water are mostly the non-lignocellulose components (Neilson and Richards, 1989).”
The Indian Sundarban Mangrove Forests: History, Utilization, Conservation Strategies and Local Perception (2015, background): “Mangroves are diverse and highly productive ecological communities [1,2], which provide important ecosystem functions [3,4].”
Structuring of Indo-Pacific fish assemblages along the mangrove-seagrass continuum (2009, methodology): “Multiple sources were used in order to ensure placement of species in the correct trophic feeding category (Hutomo & Peristiwady 1996, Khalaf & Kochzius 2002, Nakamura et al. 2003, Froese & Pauly 2008).”
Structural development and productivity of replanted mangrove plantations in Kenya (2008, background): “Mangroves serve as breeding grounds for many species of fish, molluscs, crustaceans and birds (Taylor et al., 2003; Nagelkerken et al., 2007).”
The role of seagrass meadows, mangrove forests, salt marshes and reed beds as nursery areas and food sources for fishes in estuaries (2017, background): “The large mangrove systems of the East and West Atlantic, East Pacific and Indo-West Pacific all contain at least 100 fish species, with the Sciaenidae a dominant family except for the Indo- West Pacific (Nagelkerken et al. 2008).”
Characteristics of meiofauna in extreme marine ecosystems: a review (2018, background): “In a review by Nagelkerken et al. (2008), nematodes were identified as the dominant taxon in most meiofauna studies conducted in mangrove sediments, followed by harpacticoid copepods.”
More than marine: revealing the critical importance of mangrove ecosystems for terrestrial vertebrates (2017, background): “This suggests that the tendency of previous studies to focus on obligate users of mangrove forests (Nagelkerken et al., 2008; Luther & Greenberg, 2009) has distorted our understanding of the faunal species types that use mangroves and contributed to the perception that vertebrate species richness…”
Functionality of restored mangroves: A review (2008, background): “Mangroves support nursery functions for many juvenile fish and shrimp species, many of which are highly important commercially (Lewis et al., 1985; Rönnbäck et al., 1999; Nagelkerken et al., 2008).”