Stuart E. Hamilton

TL;DR: The new database, CGMFC-21, provides a standardized spatial dataset that monitors mangrove deforestation globally at high spatio-temporal resolutions and can be used to drive the mangroves research agenda, particularly as it pertains to monitoring ofMangrove carbon stocks and the establishment of baseline local Mangrove forest inventories required for payment for ecosystem service initiatives.

TL;DR: The CGMFC-21 dataset as discussed by the authors provides high-resolution local, regional, national and global estimates of annual mangrove forest area from 2000 through to 2012 with the goal of driving mangroves research questions pertaining to biodiversity, carbon stocks, climate change, functionality, food security, livelihoods, fisheries support and conservation that have been impeded by a lack of suitable data.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the alongshore variation in dune morphology along a 11 km stretch of Santa Rosa Island in northwest Florida and related the variation in morphology to the response of the island during Hurricane Ivan and historic and storm-related rates of shoreline erosion.

TL;DR: Intertidal mangrove forests are a dynamic ecosystem experiencing rapid changes in extent and habitat quality over geological history, today and into the future as mentioned in this paper. Climate and sea level have drastical...

TL;DR: In this article, the authors quantified annual mangrove carbon stocks from 2000 to 2012 at the global, national and sub-national levels, and global carbon emissions resulting from deforestation over the same time period.