The Mangrove Science Network is a collaboration of USGS scientists focused on working with natural resource managers to develop and conduct research whose findings will support and evaluate decisions made in mangrove management and restoration.
USGS research on mangrove ecosystem biology includes mangrove regeneration, tree growth, sedimentation, and early seedling development. We are also interested in learning about how mangrove vegetation responds to and influences environmental stressors along the coast such as sea level rise and its role in attenuating storm impacts.
Mangrove Research
RESTORE Science: Inventory of Gulf of Mexico Ecosystem Indicators Using an Ecological Resilience Framework
Dynamics and Fluxes of Nutrients along Environmental Gradients in the Florida Everglades, USA
Plant Community Dynamics in a Mangrove-to-Marsh Transition Zone
Surface Elevation Vulnerability of Coastal Forested Wetlands to Sea-Level Rise
Population Biology and Ecology of Diamondback Terrapins in Mangrove Forested Ecosystems in the Greater Everglades
Connectivity of Tropical Marine Ecosystems: Understanding Biodiversity and Trophic Relationships in the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico
Life on the Edge: Can Corals in Mangroves Provide Insights into Climate Change and Recovery following Severe Hurricane Damage?
Recent data (2020-2023) related to USGS mangroves research is listed below. A complete listing of USGS mangroves data is available from the button below.
Whiskey Island Caillou Lake Headlands restoration area - 2017 habitat map, Louisiana Barrier Island Comprehensive Monitoring Program
Whiskey Island Caillou Lake Headlands restoration area - 2015 habitat map, Louisiana Barrier Island Comprehensive Monitoring Program
Mangrove distribution in the southeastern United States in 2021
Southwest Everglades coastal soil pore water data Everglades National Park 1997-2012
Pass Chaland to Grand Bayou Pass Barrier Shoreline Restoration (BA-35): 2016 habitat classification
Shell Island East Barrier Island Restoration (BA-0110): 2016 habitat classification
Whiskey Island Caillou Lake Headlands restoration area - 2012 habitat map, Louisiana Barrier Island Comprehensive Monitoring Program
Mangrove Elevation and Species' Responses to Sea-level Rise Across Pohnpei, Federated States of Micronesia (ver. 1.1, December 2021)
Geographic distribution of black mangrove (Avicennia germinans) in coastal Louisiana in 2009
Louisiana Barrier Island Comprehensive Monitoring Program - 2015 Habitat Map, East Chenier Region
Louisiana Barrier Island Comprehensive Monitoring Program - 2016 habitat map, Modern Delta Region
Louisiana Barrier Island Comprehensive Monitoring Program - 2016 habitat map, Chandeleur Islands Region
Recent publications (2020-2023) related to USGS mangroves research are listed below. A complete listing of USGS mangroves publications is available from the button below.
Identifying the ecological and management implications of mangrove migration in the northern Gulf of Mexico
Introduced mangroves along the coast of Moloka‘i, Hawai‘i may represent novel habitats for megafaunal communities
The distribution and structure of mangroves (Avicennia germinans and Rhizophora mangle) near a rapidly changing range limit in the northeastern Gulf of Mexico
Effects of chronic and acute stressors on transplanted black mangrove (Avicennia germinans) seedlings along an eroding Louisiana shoreline
Restoration of mangrove forest
Forest thinning in the seaward fringe speeds up surface elevation increment and carbon accumulation in managed mangrove forests
Does geomorphology determine vulnerability of mangrove coasts to sea-level rise?
Frequency of extreme freeze events controls the distribution and structure of black mangroves (Avicennia germinans) near their northern range limit in coastal Louisiana
Structural impacts, carbon losses, and regeneration in mangrove wetlands after two hurricanes on St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands
A tropical cyclone-induced ecological regime shift: Mangrove forest conversion to mudflat in Everglades National Park (Florida, USA)
Louisiana Barrier Island Comprehensive Monitoring Program: Mapping habitats in beach, dune, and intertidal environments along the Louisiana Gulf of Mexico shoreline, 2008 and 2015–16
Scientific contributions of the Mangrove Macrobenthos and Management (MMM) conference series, 2000-2019
The Mangrove Science Network is a collaboration of USGS scientists focused on working with natural resource managers to develop and conduct research whose findings will support and evaluate decisions made in mangrove management and restoration.
USGS research on mangrove ecosystem biology includes mangrove regeneration, tree growth, sedimentation, and early seedling development. We are also interested in learning about how mangrove vegetation responds to and influences environmental stressors along the coast such as sea level rise and its role in attenuating storm impacts.
Mangrove Research
RESTORE Science: Inventory of Gulf of Mexico Ecosystem Indicators Using an Ecological Resilience Framework
Dynamics and Fluxes of Nutrients along Environmental Gradients in the Florida Everglades, USA
Plant Community Dynamics in a Mangrove-to-Marsh Transition Zone
Surface Elevation Vulnerability of Coastal Forested Wetlands to Sea-Level Rise
Population Biology and Ecology of Diamondback Terrapins in Mangrove Forested Ecosystems in the Greater Everglades
Connectivity of Tropical Marine Ecosystems: Understanding Biodiversity and Trophic Relationships in the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico
Life on the Edge: Can Corals in Mangroves Provide Insights into Climate Change and Recovery following Severe Hurricane Damage?
Recent data (2020-2023) related to USGS mangroves research is listed below. A complete listing of USGS mangroves data is available from the button below.
Whiskey Island Caillou Lake Headlands restoration area - 2017 habitat map, Louisiana Barrier Island Comprehensive Monitoring Program
Whiskey Island Caillou Lake Headlands restoration area - 2015 habitat map, Louisiana Barrier Island Comprehensive Monitoring Program
Mangrove distribution in the southeastern United States in 2021
Southwest Everglades coastal soil pore water data Everglades National Park 1997-2012
Pass Chaland to Grand Bayou Pass Barrier Shoreline Restoration (BA-35): 2016 habitat classification
Shell Island East Barrier Island Restoration (BA-0110): 2016 habitat classification
Whiskey Island Caillou Lake Headlands restoration area - 2012 habitat map, Louisiana Barrier Island Comprehensive Monitoring Program
Mangrove Elevation and Species' Responses to Sea-level Rise Across Pohnpei, Federated States of Micronesia (ver. 1.1, December 2021)
Geographic distribution of black mangrove (Avicennia germinans) in coastal Louisiana in 2009
Louisiana Barrier Island Comprehensive Monitoring Program - 2015 Habitat Map, East Chenier Region
Louisiana Barrier Island Comprehensive Monitoring Program - 2016 habitat map, Modern Delta Region
Louisiana Barrier Island Comprehensive Monitoring Program - 2016 habitat map, Chandeleur Islands Region
Recent publications (2020-2023) related to USGS mangroves research are listed below. A complete listing of USGS mangroves publications is available from the button below.