Framing the flow: innovative approaches to understand, protect and value ecosystem services across linked habitats
This publication presents a framework for an understanding of the connectivity between tropical coastal ecosystems (including mangroves, seagrasses and coral reefs) across environmental, economic, social, and management contexts. It presents innovative approaches to better understand, protect and value ecosystem services across linked habitats, and to allow informed trade-offs between different land-use management decisions and consequent changes in different ecosystem services. Coral reefs, mangroves, seagrasses and nearshore terrestrial ecosystems are highly interconnected by their physical and biological dependence on each other. The importance of this interdependence to ecosystem function and service provision is becoming increasingly recognised, particularly in the context of the disruptive impacts of human drivers of change.