Community perceptions of long-term mangrove cover changes and its drivers from a typhoon-prone province in the Philippines.

ABSTRACT: Mangrove forests are among the most productive ecosystems with important services such as food and livelihood provisions, recreations, and regulations (e.g., coastal protection) in local scales. At global scale, they are gaining salience for their carbon sequestration capacities, currently conceptualized as "blue carbon." However, their essential benefits are reduced or lost when degraded. There is, therefore, a need to explore long-term mangrove cover change (MCC) and its underpinning drivers to develop sustainable management strategies. MCC has been analyzed extensively, including satellite images and field surveys, with drivers of changes frequently embedded in local contexts. Thus, in this study, MCC and the causal factors are evaluated at the local scale by gathering community percept

SUBMITTER: Quevedo JMD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8847476 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature