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ClearMangrove Health: A Review of Functions, Threats, and Challenges Associated with Mangrove Management Practices
This review describes how mangrove forests protect coastlines, store carbon, and support marine life, but are under increasing threat from development, pollution, and climate change. Mangrove loss matters for microplastic pollution because these ecosystems act as natural filters that can trap plastic particles before they spread further into the ocean and food chain.
Mangroves As Coastal Bio-Shield: A Review of Mangroves Performance in Wave Attenuation
This review examines the wave attenuation capacity of mangrove forests, finding that dense mangrove stands reduce wave energy significantly and provided demonstrated coastal protection during typhoons and tsunamis, supporting their value as nature-based coastal defense infrastructure.
Configuration of Allocated Mangrove Areas and Protection of Mangrove-Dominated Muddy Coasts: Knowledge Gaps and Recommendations
This study examined the allocation and conservation of mangrove areas along muddy coasts, finding that uncontrolled development leads to erosion and loss of these ecosystems. Healthy mangrove forests act as natural barriers that can trap and filter microplastics before they reach open ocean environments.
Mangrove Ecosystem, Seagrass, Coral Reef: its Role in Self-Purification and Carrying Capacity in Coastal Areas
This review examined how mangrove ecosystems, seagrass beds, and coral reefs provide natural purification services and support coastal biodiversity. These ecosystems are also highly vulnerable to microplastic pollution, which can smother corals, be ingested by seagrass fauna, and accumulate in mangrove sediments.
Contamination in mangrove ecosystems: A synthesis of literature reviews across multiple contaminant categories
This review synthesizes research on five classes of contaminants in mangrove ecosystems, including microplastics, heavy metals, and organic pollutants. Microplastic levels in mangroves varied widely and lack established safety thresholds, while other pollutants were sometimes found at levels harmful to wildlife. Since mangrove ecosystems support fisheries and coastal communities, contamination of these environments could affect human food sources and livelihoods.
Literature Analysis and Synthesis of the Red Sea Mangrove Ecosystem: Decades of Human Impacts and Knowledge Gaps
This four-decade literature review assessed human-induced pollution in Red Sea mangrove ecosystems, identifying key knowledge gaps and providing recommendations for conservation and management to address climate-related and anthropogenic stressors.
Scient metrics analysis of mangrove studies from 1980 to 2020
This scientometric review analyzed 40 years of published research on mangrove ecosystems, tracking how scientific focus has shifted from basic ecology to conservation and human impact assessment. Mangroves are important coastal filters that trap plastic debris and microplastics before they reach the open ocean.
Past, Present and Future of Sri Lankan Coastal Macrophyte-Dominated Ecosystems: Blue Carbon, Conservation, Restoration and Policy
This review examines the past, present, and future of Sri Lanka's coastal macrophyte ecosystems — mangroves, salt marshes, and seagrasses — highlighting their critical roles in blue carbon sequestration, biodiversity support, and coastal protection, and noting Sri Lanka's pioneering legislation to protect all remaining mangrove forests.
Impacts of Microplastics on Mangroves - A Review
Mangrove forests act as natural traps for microplastics due to their dense root systems that slow water flow, leading to higher microplastic accumulation in mangroves than other coastal zones. This matters because the build-up harms mangrove plants at the cellular and physiological level, threatening these ecologically critical habitats that protect coastlines and support fisheries.
Plastic pollution in mangrove ecosystems: A global meta-analysis
This meta-analysis pooled global data on plastic pollution in mangrove ecosystems and found that these critical coastal habitats act as natural plastic traps. Mangroves accumulate significant amounts of both large plastic debris and microplastics due to their complex root structures. Since mangroves serve as nurseries for fish and seafood species that people eat, plastic contamination in these ecosystems could affect the food chain.
Impact of elevated environmental pollutants on carbon storage in mangrove wetlands: A comprehensive review
Researchers synthesized global studies on pollutant impacts in mangrove wetlands — which store about 10% of coastal ocean carbon — finding that microplastics reduce carbon stocks by 1-12% by impairing photosynthesis and destabilizing sediments, while heavy metals and oil spills compound the damage to these critical climate carbon sinks.
Microplastics in mangroves with special reference to Asia: Occurrence, distribution, bioaccumulation and remediation options
This review examines microplastic contamination in Asian mangrove ecosystems, finding higher pollution levels near fishing, tourism, and industrial areas. Organisms throughout the mangrove food web, from shellfish to fish, accumulate microplastics based on their feeding habits and habitat. While mangrove plants can trap some microplastics in their roots, the widespread contamination of these coastal ecosystems raises concerns about the safety of seafood harvested from mangrove areas for human consumption.
Microplastics pollution in mangrove ecosystems: A critical review of current knowledge and future directions
This review synthesizes available research on microplastic pollution in mangrove ecosystems, which act as buffers between land and sea and accumulate plastics from both marine and terrestrial sources. The authors identify key gaps in knowledge and call for more research on how microplastics affect these ecologically critical habitats.
Bibliometric Analysis of the Effects of Aquaculture on Mangrove Forests
Researchers conducted a bibliometric analysis of 993 documents from 39 countries examining the effects of aquaculture on mangrove forests, with major contributions from China, the United States, and Indonesia. The study identified four priority research areas: heavy metal pollution assessment, blue carbon and climate change mitigation, conservation strategies, and the use of remote sensing and machine learning for monitoring mangrove loss. The findings highlight that aquaculture remains a significant threat to these critical coastal ecosystems that provide biodiversity, carbon sequestration, and flood protection services.
Insightful analytical review of potential impacts of microplastic pollution on coastal and marine ecosystem services
This analytical review assessed how microplastic debris disrupts ecological functions of marine and coastal habitats, including mangroves and seagrass ecosystems, identifying critical knowledge gaps around microbial impacts and calling for coordinated global research on supporting ecosystem services most vulnerable to microplastic interference.
Characteristics and distribution of microplastics in the coastal mangrove sediments of China
A survey of mangrove sediments along China's coast found microplastics were ubiquitous, with concentrations and polymer types varying by proximity to human activity and hydrological conditions. The study shows that mangrove forests, which provide critical coastal ecosystem services, are accumulating significant quantities of plastic pollution.
Assessing microplastic contamination levels in ghana's mangrove wetlands
Researchers assessed microplastic contamination levels in mangrove wetlands in Ghana, examining how mangrove tree morphology facilitates plastic accumulation and what concentrations and polymer types are present in these coastal ecosystems. The study addressed threats to mangrove ecological services including water quality improvement, carbon sequestration, and coastline protection posed by plastic pollution.
Multidimensional Assessment of Microplastic Pollution in Mangrove Wetlands: Driving Mechanisms, Carbon Contribution, and Ecological Risk
Scientists found tiny plastic particles called microplastics throughout mangrove wetlands in China, with the highest levels in areas used for fishing and fish farming. These plastic particles are building up in the sediment and water, creating pollution hotspots that pose moderate ecological risks to these important coastal ecosystems. This matters because mangroves help protect coastlines and support marine life that humans depend on for food, so plastic pollution in these areas could ultimately affect our food supply and coastal protection.
Microplastics retention in different types of Mangrove forest in Xuan Thuy National Park, Vietnam
Researchers measured microplastic retention in three types of mangrove forest in Xuan Thuy National Park, Vietnam, and found that mangroves trap significant quantities of microplastics from coastal waters. Mangrove restoration projects could therefore help reduce microplastic loads in adjacent coastal waters as an ecosystem service. However, mangroves themselves accumulate microplastics, which may affect their ecological functions over time.
A review on microplastic pollution in the mangrove wetlands and microbial strategies for its remediation
Researchers reviewed the growing problem of microplastic pollution in mangrove wetland ecosystems and its effects on the biological communities that depend on these habitats. They found that microplastic exposure can substantially alter the microbial communities critical to nutrient cycling in mangrove environments. The review also explores microbial bioremediation strategies as a sustainable approach to addressing plastic pollution in these threatened coastal ecosystems.
Estructura y composición en un manglar del Pacífico Central de Costa Rica: población de moluscos de interés comercial
This study evaluated the mangrove structure and associated mollusk populations at Chacarita mangrove on Costa Rica's Pacific coast to identify opportunities for sustainable harvest of commercially important species. Mangroves serve as critical nursery habitats, and understanding their biodiversity is important for assessing how plastic pollution affects these productive coastal ecosystems.
Role of mangrove forest in interception of microplastics (MPs): Challenges, progress, and prospects
This review examines how mangrove forests intercept and accumulate microplastics from terrestrial, marine, and atmospheric sources, identifying knowledge gaps in understanding the mechanisms, ecological impacts, and long-term fate of trapped microplastics in mangrove ecosystems.
Mangroves in Egypt and the Middle East: current status, threats, and opportunities
Researchers reviewed the state of mangrove forests across Egypt and the Middle East, where only two species survive the harsh conditions, and found that pollution, climate change, and habitat destruction are major threats — with microplastics and heavy metals increasingly entering mangrove ecosystems via seawater. Rehabilitation efforts across the region have planted millions of trees, but stronger protections and policy frameworks are needed to preserve these critical carbon-storing coastal ecosystems.
A Synthesis of Provision and Impact in Seagrass Ecosystem Services in the Brazilian Southwest Atlantic
This synthesis reviewed seagrass ecosystem services along the Brazilian southwest Atlantic coast, screening over 30,000 search results to identify 394 relevant studies. The study found that while seagrasses provide crucial provisioning and supporting services including fisheries support and coastal protection, coastal urbanization and marine food harvesting are the primary drivers negatively impacting these ecosystems.