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During the 1970s, mangroves occupied as much as 200,000 km 2, encompassing approximately 75% of the world's coastlines. [24] Now, global mangrove area has experienced significant decline where at least 35% has been lost. Mangroves are continuing to diminish at a rate of 1-2% per year. [24]
[9] In 2018, the Global Mangrove Watch Initiative released a global baseline based on remote sensing and global data for 2010 (Giri et al., 2011). They estimated the total mangrove forest area of the world as of 2010 at 137,600 km 2 (53,100 sq mi), spanning 118 countries and territories.
Their loss would be ‘disastrous’, conservationists warned as a global assessment on how mangroves are faring was published. Half the world’s mangroves ‘at risk of collapse’ as climate ...
Beginning in 2010, remote sensing technologies and global data have been used to assess areas, conditions and deforestation rates of mangroves around the world. [7] [1] [2] In 2018, the Global Mangrove Watch Initiative released a new global baseline which estimates the total mangrove forest area of the world as of 2010 at 137,600 km 2 (53,100 ...
Comparing images from 2015 to 2018 around Aransas Bay with images from 2004, the agency found a net increase of 632 acres of mangrove, said Jacob Harris, a coastal ecologist on the agency’s ...
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Mangroves maintain coastal water quality by abiotic and biotic retention, removal, and cycling of nutrients, pollutants, and particulate matter from land-based sources, filtering these materials from water before they reach seaward coral reef and seagrass habitats. [9] Mangrove root systems slow water flow, facilitating the deposition of sediment.
By late 2018, 16 km (9.9 mi) of brushwood barriers along the coastline had been completed. [ 124 ] A concern over reforestation is that although it supports increases in mangrove area it may actually result in a decrease in global mangrove functionality and poor restoration processes may result in longer term depletion of the mangrove resource.