@article{7545,
  author = {Farid Dahdouh-Guebas and Gordon Ajonina and Aldrie Amir and Dominic Andradi-Brown and Irfan Aziz and Thorsten Balke and Edward Barbier and Stefano Cannicci and Simon Cragg and Mar{\'\i}lia Cunha-Lignon and David Curnick and Carlos Duarte and Norman Duke and Charlie Endsor and Sara Fratini and Ilka Feller and Fran{\c c}ois Fromard and Jean Hug{\'e} and Mark Huxham and James Kairo and Tadashi Kajita and Kandasamy Kathiresan and Nico Koedam and Shing Lee and Hsing-Juh Lin and Jock Mackenzie and Mwita Mangora and Cyril Marchand and Tarik Meziane and Todd Minchinton and Nathalie Pettorelli and Jaime Polan{\'\i}a and Gianluca Polgar and Meenakshi Poti and Jurgenne Primavera and Alfredo Quarto and Stefanie Rog and Behara Satyanarayana and Yara Schaeffer-Novelli and Mark Spalding and Tom Van der Stocken and Dominic Wodehouse and Jean Yong and Martin Zimmer and Daniel Friess},
  title = {Public Perceptions of Mangrove Forests Matter for Their Conservation},
  abstract = {Iconic species and landscapes attract public attention to help reverse the degradation of ecosystems and their biodiversity (Thompson and Rog, 2019); sharing their images on social media can act as a powerful way to influence perceptions and drive positive actions by the public (Wu et al., 2018). Social media platforms such as Twitter, Facebook and Instagram have been used to great effect to communicate the urgency required to halt and reverse tropical forest loss (Lamb et al., 2005) and the plight of coral reefs (Curnock et al., 2019). Ecosystems such as seagrass meadows, mudflats, and mangrove forests receive substantially less media exposure (Duarte et al., 2008). Yet these under-recognized ecosystems are hugely important for local and global societies, providing benefits such as shoreline protection (Barbier, 2016), fisheries (Carrasquilla-Henao and Juanes, 2017), carbon capture and storage (Duarte et al., 2013), alongside supporting rich marine and terrestrial biodiversity (Sievers et al., 2019;\ Thompson and Rog, 2019) (Figure 1). Apart from these important ecosystem functions, goods and services, mangrove forests are home to a huge diversity of organisms with ecologically and evolutionarily unique adaptations to life in the intertidal zone, including vivipary and salt tolerance in trees, air-breathing in crabs and amphibious behavior in fish (mudskippers); this makes mangrove forests a dynamic and fascinating evolutionary laboratory.},
  year = {2020},
  journal = {Frontiers in Marine Science},
  volume = {7},
  month = {Jul-11-2021},
  url = {https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmars.2020.603651/full},
  doi = {10.3389/fmars.2020.60365110.3389/fmars.2020.603651.s001},
  language = {eng},
}