EVALUATING ECOSYSTEM SERVICES IN EASTERN TROPICAL PACIFIC MANGROVE SYSTEMS
Abstract
Although their total area constitutes only a small percentage of global tropical forests,
mangroves supply a wide range of goods and services that benefit people, flora and
fauna. They protect coastlines from the impact of storms, provide habitat for numerous
fish species, improve water quality and even store carbon, thereby alleviating the
effects of global climate change. And yet, despite offering all of these benefits,
mangrove systems are rapidly shrinking worldwide. To reverse this trend, many studies
have attempted to place economic values on the ecosystem services that mangroves provide.
In this report, we focus on the mangrove forests of the Eastern Tropical Pacific Seascape
(ETPS), which includes the countries of Ecuador, Panama, Costa Rica and Colombia.
Through a meta-regression of mangrove ecosystem service valuation studies and by utilizing
the MangroveCarbon toolbox, we aim to determine the monetary values of the mangrove
ecosystem services in this region, and to investigate the factors that most influence
those values. The hope is that our analyses will better inform future conservation
efforts in the ETPS.
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Master's projectSubject
mangrovesecosystem services
carbon storage
Eastern Tropical Pacific Seascape
ecosystem service valuation
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Navarro, Vanessa; & Fan, Jianing (2018). EVALUATING ECOSYSTEM SERVICES IN EASTERN TROPICAL PACIFIC MANGROVE SYSTEMS. Master's project, Duke University. Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10161/16592.Collections
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