Creation of a high spatio‐temporal resolution global database of continuous mangrove forest cover for the 21st century (CGMFC‐21)

• Published in: Global ecology and biogeography Vol. 25; no. 6; pp. 729 - 738
• Main Authors: Hamilton, Stuart E., Casey, Daniel
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford John Wiley & Sons, Ltd 01.06.2016; Blackwell Publishing Ltd; John Wiley & Sons Ltd; Wiley Subscription Services, Inc
• Subjects: biodiversity; Blue carbon; Cambodia; carbon emissions; carbon sinks; climate change; Deforestation; ecosystem services; fisheries; food security; forest inventory; Forests; GIS; Guatemala; Indonesia; Inventory; livelihood; Malaysia; mangrove deforestation; mangrove forests; monitoring; Myanmar; payments for ecosystem services; remote sensing; spatial data; terrestrial ecosystems; Guatemala; Myanmar; Malaysia; Cambodia; Indonesia; ISEW, Malaysia; ISEW, Southeast Asia; ISW, Myanmar

AIM: To provide high‐resolution local, regional, national and global estimates of annual mangrove forest area from 2000 through to 2012 with the goal of driving mangrove research questions pertaining to biodiversity, carbon stocks, climate change, functionality, food security, livelihoods, fisheries...