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Conservation and Management of Mangrove Ecosystem in Diverse Perspectives

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The mangrove ecosystem is a dynamic hub of the oceanic environment due to nutrient fluidities, yield, and biodiversity of organisms. It guards the seaside zone against natural catastrophes, confirms pollution reduction, and functions by recycling nutrients. The value of mangroves in providing the forestry and fisheries products to meet the shoreline livelihood and economy is significant. Mangroves are of great ecological significance and socioeconomic implication as a core tropical marine habitat. The mangroves are also one of the world’s richest granaries of biological and genetic diversity. They support complex communities where thousands of other species interact, from bacteria to human beings. They provide a valuable nursery habitat for fish and crustaceans, a food source for other faunas. Anthropogenic pressures, development pressures including urbanization and industrialization, and rapid environmental changes have turned tropical and subtropical mangrove forests into one of the Earth’s most-threatened ecosystems, causing worldwide loss of coastal livelihoods and ecosystem services. The scientific community finds such an ecosystem as one among the world’s most-threatened biomes due to human intervention in the long past and on-going climate change. Many countries have already lost their huge mangrove wealth within the last two decades. Further, the decline of the mangrove cover may cause irreparable damage to the ecosystem to the service of mankind. Now is the time to conserve the precious ecosystem for overall well-being based on in situ or ex situ conservation methods preferable to each species; else, the ecosystem services and other benefits offered by mangroves will be diminished or lost forever.

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Bindiya, E.S., Sreekanth, P.M., Bhat, S.G. (2023). Conservation and Management of Mangrove Ecosystem in Diverse Perspectives. In: Sukumaran, S.T., T R, K. (eds) Conservation and Sustainable Utilization of Bioresources. Sustainable Development and Biodiversity, vol 30. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-5841-0_13

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