Asia-Pacific Symposium on Mangrove Ecosystems

Thermo-osmotic gas supply not detected in Avicennia marina seedlings.- There is a continuum of gas space in young plants of Avicennia marina.- Diurnal gas exchange characteristics and water use efficiency of three salt-secreting mangroves at low and high salinities.- Ventilation and respiration in roots of one-year-old seedlings of grey mangrove Avicennia marina (Forsk.) Vierh..- Transport of sediment in mangrove swamps.- Mangroves and climate change in the Florida and Caribbean region: scenarios and hypotheses.- Tidal asymmetry in mangrove creeks.- Ecographic variation in Kandelia candel from Brunei, Hong Kong and Thailand.- Microgeographic genetic structure of the fiddler crab, Uca arcuata De Haan (Ocypodidae) in Taiwan.- Impact of expected climate change on mangroves.- The population dynamics of the mangrove Avicennia marina; demographic synthesis and predictive modelling.- Lower marine fungi (labyrinthulomycetes) and the decay of mangrove leaf litter.- Frequency of occurrence of fungi on wood in Malaysian mangroves.- Ecology of mangrove fungi and their role in nutrient cycling: what gaps occur in our knowledge?.- Observations on vertical distribution of fungi associated with standing senescent Acanthus ilicifolius stems at Mai Po Mangrove, Hong Kong.- Substrate type and microbial interactions as factors affecting asocarp formation by mangrove fungi.- Continental scale patterns in mangrove litter fall.- The growth performances of two mangrove crabs, Chiromanthes bidens and Parasesarma plicata under different leaf litter diets.- Nutrients and heavy metal contamination of plants and sediments in Futian mangrove forest.- Forest structure and biomass of mangroves in the Mgeni estuary, South Africa.- Genetic diversity, distributional barriers and rafting continents —more thoughts on the evolution of mangroves.- Temporal distribution and abundance of shrimp postlarvae and juveniles in the mangroves of Muthupet, Tamilnadu, India.- Community structure and standing crop biomass of a mangrove forest in Futian Nature Reserve, Shenzhen, China.- Mangrove outwelling: a review.- An ecological study on the Mollusca in mangrove areas in the estuary of the Jiulong River.- The temporal changes in benthic abundances and sediment nutrients in a mudflat of the Chuwei Mangrove Forest, Taiwan.- Mangrove soils as sinks for wastewater-borne pollutants.- Effect of wastewater discharge on nutrient contamination of mangrove soils and plants.- The use of demographic studies in mangrove silviculture.- Effect of synthetic wastewater on young Kandelia candel plants growing under greenhouse conditions.- Spatial and temporal variations of mangrove fish assemblages in Martinique (French West Indies).- An integrated comparative approach to mangrove vegetation mapping using advanced remote sensing and GIS technologies: preliminary results.- Diel activity patterns in Metapenaeus and Penaeus juveniles.- Mangroves and brackishwater pond culture in the Phillippines.- Mangroves as filters of shrimp pond effluent: predictions and biogeochemical research needs.- Conservation evaluation of nine Hong Kong mangals.- The distribution of mangrove-associated gastropod snails in Hong Kong.- The ecology of mangrove conservation & management.- An initial assessment of mangrove resources and human activities at Mahout Island, Arabian Sea, Oman.