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Impacts of Climate Change on Asian Mangrove Forests

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Mangrove Ecosystems of Asia

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Mangroves are woody trees and shrubs which thrive in the inhospitable zone between land and sea along the tropical and subtropical coasts of the globe. Mangroves have made significant contributions to the economical status of the coastal communities of tropical regions for centuries, affording a large number of goods and services such as wood and timber production, salt production, support for commercial and subsistence fisheries, protection of shoreline from cyclones and typhoons and controlling coastal erosion. It has been estimated that the total mangrove area of the world was 137,760 km2 in 2000, and Asia occupies the largest mangrove covering area in the world. The mangrove forests of Asia are currently threatened by many human activities. Besides the overexploitation of mangrove ecosystems by human activities, climate changes pose serious impacts on Asian mangrove forests. The recent studies that have focused on various climate change components affecting the mangrove forests will be discussed in this chapter with special emphasis on Asian mangrove forests. The changes in the temperature, atmospheric CO2 concentration, precipitation, storms, ocean circulation patterns, hydrology (flows of tidal and fresh water within the mangrove ecosystem), sea level rise and anthropogenic activities are the major climate change components affecting the mangrove ecosystems of Asia. Damage of mangrove ecosystems caused by climate change will significantly affect the socio-economic lives of coastal communities of Asia. Climate change driven loss of the mangrove ecosystem also results in higher risk to human safety due to the loss of protection from coastal hazards such as flooding, soil erosion, storm waves and tsunami. Therefore, the immediate attention of biologists and ecologists is needed to protect the mangroves of the Asian coast lines as well as the world which are vulnerable to climate-change driven damage.

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Financial support from the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), New Delhi, India (project no. BSC 0109) is gratefully acknowledged. VT is thankful to CSIR, New Delhi for financial support in the form of a Senior Research Fellowship.

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  1. Universiti Putra Malaysia, Selangor, Malaysia

    I. Faridah-Hanum

  2. Fakulti Sains & Teknologi, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Banji, Malaysia

    A. Latiff

  3. Forestry, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Selangor, Malaysia

    Khalid Rehman Hakeem

  4. Ege University, Izmer, Turkey

    Munir Ozturk

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Parida, A., Tiwari, V., Jha, B. (2014). Impacts of Climate Change on Asian Mangrove Forests. In: Faridah-Hanum, I., Latiff, A., Hakeem, K., Ozturk, M. (eds) Mangrove Ecosystems of Asia. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8582-7_11

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