MMM7 Talk Program

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* Last updated: 1 July 2026

Day 1 (1 July 2026)

13:00-13:40 Opening Session

   Opening Remarks. Shigeyuki Baba

   Acknowledgment and Housekeeping Announcement. Tadashi Kajita

   Group Photo Session (by Jarupong Phurithat & Tobias Poprick)  

13:40-14:20 Keynote Talk (Chaired by Tadashi Kajita)

• 1_K1_1  Toyohiko Miyagi, Impacts of the Rapid/Relative Sea-level Rise among the Mangrove ecosystems

14:30-16:00 Oral Session: Nature Positive Mangroves: Biodiversity Foundations, Data Systems, and Policy Interfaces (Chaired by Tadashi Kajita)

• 1_P1_1  Catherine E Lovelock, Valerie Hagger, Ilka C Feller, M. Aldrie Amir, Vilma Machava António, Margaret A Owuor and Daniel A Friess, Mangrove biodiversity and ecosystem services

• 1_P1_2  Sigit D Sasmito, Arimatéa C Ximenes, Age Kridalaksana, Benjamin M Brown, Mayasih Wigati, Meli F Saragi-Sasmito, Mohammad Basyuni, Rudi Pribadhi, Frida Sidik, Virni B Arifanti, Mariska A Kusumaningtyas, Yaya I Ulumuddin, Wahyu C Adinugroho, Novi S Adi, Haruni Krisnawati, Muhammad Ilman, Nathan J Waltham, Catherine E Lovelock and Daniel Murdiyarso, Integrating climate mitigation, biodiversity and coastal protection in Indonesia’s mangroves using a national-scale MRV framework

• 1_P1_3  Savannah Hewson, Jaime Polanía, Yara Schaeffer-Novelli and Rafael J. Araújo, Comparative audit of taxonomic and biogeographic consistency across global mangrove databases

• 1_P1_4  Véronique Helfer and Mantra Consortium, Mangrove biodiversity and resilience – mind plant functional traits

• 1_P1_5  Alison Kim Shan Wee, Joan Taaca Acaso, Nurfaezah Adam, Serena Adam, Nonillon Aspe, Haslawati Baharuddin, Mohammad Basyuni, Cecilia Chu, Pridvi Raj Gutthavilli, Kazi Ahsan Habib, Kanako Iguchi, Md. Jayedul Islam, Yukinobu Isowa, Hattaya Jitrapat, Shalika Kumburegama, Amanda Jhu-Xhin Leung, Ndeye Codou Mbaye, Gustavo Maruyama Mori, Venus Leopardas, Wei Lun Ng, Christian Jay Nob, Bernadeth Pananganan, Emma Russouw, Itchika Sivaipram, Arida Susilowati, Maryrose Easter Tapilatu, Amy Yee-Hui Then, Erwin Jones Tucong, Sophie Von der Heyden, Julius William-Dee, Leanne Frances Yee and Tadashi Kajita, Bridging the science-policy chasm in the application of environmental DNA metabarcoding as a tool for biodiversity monitoring in mangroves from developing maritime nations

• 1_P1_6  Layla Olefs, Hendrik Ludolph, Jean Hugé and Farid Dahdouh-Guebas, Are mangroves and biodiversity a hot topic in corporate sustainability?

16:30 Oral Session: Biodiversity Monitoring and Indicators for Nature Positive Mangroves (Chaired by Alison Wee Kim Shan)

• 1_P2_1  Lydia Bunn, Adri Agni Bin Radzif, Naufal Rahman Avicena, Alison Kim Shan Wee and Jennifer Rowntree, 25 years of microsatellite data reveal regional and taxonomic influence on global patterns of mangrove genetic diversity

• 1_P2_2  Henrique Bravo, Christine L.Y. Cheng, Sara Fratini and Stefano Cannicci, Functional analysis of mangrove forests in Hong Kong reveals heterogeneity and imbalance in macrofaunal communities

• 1_P2_3  Diego Gloria, Rod M Connolly, Cesar Herrera, Michael Sievers, Anusha Rajkaran, Punyasloke Bhadury, Nelson Miranda, Jimena Samper-Villarreal and Shing Yip Lee, Automated and standardised crab monitoring for global mangrove ecosystem assessments

• 1_P2_4  Lorenzo Ballini, Giorgia Staffoni, Stefano Cannicci, Giacomo Chini, Tommaso Marinoni, Alessio Iannucci, Chiara Vergata, Francesca Coscione, Behara Satyanarayana, Nur Hannah Abd Rahim and Mohamad Na, A methodological workflow for eDNA-based biodiversity monitoring in mangrove forests

• 1_P2_5  Bernadeth Grace Suerte Pananganan, Yukinobu Isowa, Marizka Grafane Juliano, Maria Daniela Artigas Ramirez, Hiroyuki Motomura and Tadashi Kajita, Environmental DNA metabarcoding reveals longitudinal fish diversity patterns in mangrove rivers of Iriomote Island, a UNESCO World Natural Heritage Site

• 1_P2_6 Withdrawn

Day 2 (2 July 2026)

9:20 Keynote Talk (Chaired by Nasreen Peer)

• 2_K1_1  Anusha Rajkaran, Nelson Miranda, Tashreeqah Nero, Lalao Aigrette, Rod Connolly, Bernard Kirui, Mwita Mangora, Celia Macamo and Nasreen Peer, Reviewing Data-Deficiency of Mangroves Ecological Datasets in African to Support Evidence-based Management and other Priorities.

10:00–10:20 Flash Talk Session 2-F1 (Chaired by Tadashi Kajita)

• 2-F1-1 (P001)  Marizka Juliano, Bernadeth Grace Pananganan, Saki Sugawara, Iori Mizukami, Yukinobu Isowa and Tadashi Kajita, Baseline assessment of mangrove-associated fish biodiversity in Nakama River, Iriomote Island, Okinawa, Japan using environmental DNA (eDNA) metabarcoding

• 2-F1-2 (P035)  Iori Mizukami, Kannapoj Techawongstien, Chloé Julie Loïs Fourreau, Agus Alim Hakim and James Davis Reimer, New distribution records and genetic diversity of Paromoionchis tumidus (Semper, 1880) inhabiting artificial mangrove areas in Nakagusuku Bay, Okinawa-jima Island

• 2-F1-3 (P063)  Sarah Wells, William Glamore, Andrew Dansie, Bradley Henderson and Thorsten Balke, Mangrove distribution on the open coast can be predicted using global wave data sets.

• 2-F1-4 (P082)  Mathias Hofkens-Van den Brandt, Jelle Rondelez, Britt Lonneville, Kyle Cavanaugh, Tom Van der Stocken and Farid Dahdouh-Guebas, Using archived maps, written accounts, and photographs for the historical ecology of Guadeloupe from 1686 till present

• 2-F1-5 (P105)  Judith A. Rosentreter, Mona Andskog, Elisabeth Deschaseaux, Johannes Dittmann, Leslie Galstaun, Chris Greening, Joashua Guyat, Jasmine Haskell, Luke Jeffrey, Brendan Kelaher, Damien Maher, Axel Olander, Francesco Ricci, Christian Sanders and James Z. Sippo, The mangrove methane budget- a case study from Australia

• 2-F1-6 (P127)  Isabel C Romero, Beatriz A Aguilar, Josh Breithaupt, Joseph Smoak, Kara Radabaugh, Ryan Moyer and Brad Rosenheim, Belowground organic carbon content in natural and created mangroves of different ages in Southwestern Florida

• 2-F1-7 (P148)  Topik Hidayat, Syidik Fahmi, Aji Wahyu Anggoro, Mariski Nirwan, A. Yoseph Wihartono, Ani Mardiastuti, Yeni A. Mulyani, Mirza D. Kusrini, Yusuf Fajariyanto, Nani Rahayu, Yusuf Muhammad, Rizki Prima and Sukarman Sukarman, Early Biodiversity Recovery Following Ecological Restoration in a Highly Urbanized Mangrove Ecosystem

• 2-F1-8 (P165)  Ignace Pelckmans, Jean-Philippe Belliard, Olivier Gourgue, Luis Elvin Dominguez-Granda and Stijn Temmerman, Nature-based mitigation of flood risks by Rhizophora spp. mangroves in a tropical delta: integrating observations and modelling

10:50 Oral Session: Evolution, Biogeography, and Ecological Connectivity in Mangrove Systems (Chaired by Catherine Lovelock)

• 2_A1_1  Fernando Vélez-Esperilla, Hiroshi Noda, Tadashi Kajita and Koji Takayama, Contrasting dispersal syndromes and the biogeographical history of Talipariti tiliaceum (Malvaceae), a widespread mangrove associate

• 2_A1_2  Wenshu Yap, Timothy Shaw, Behara Satyanarayana and Adam Switzer, Sedimentary DNA and geochemical proxies reveal mangrove ecosystem response to late Holocene climate variability

• 2_A1_3  Kun-Chin Hung, How the endangered endemic fiddler crab Xeruca formosensis survives in a fragmented coastal landscape

• 2_A1_4  Jurgenne Primavera, Camptostemon philippinensis: UPDATES ON DISTRIBUTION AND NURSERY PROPAGATION

• 2_A1_5  Matin Miryeganeh, Epigenetic memory and adaptive reprogramming in mangrove trees under fluctuating salinity

• 2_A1_6  Ana Filipa Palmeirim, Kevogo E. Milton, Frederick Asante, Ángela M. Barrera Bello, Khady Diallo, Huran T. Drouet Cruz, Elisha Mrabu Jenoh, Léa Fourchault, Setondé C. Gnansounou, Jean Hugé, Md. Sagar Islam, Patrick Muderhwa Mutabesha, Kenneth Odhiambo, Samuel A. Ofori, Layla Olefs, Severino G. Salmo III, Behara Satyanarayana, Cora Scazzola, Windika S. W. Thanthirighe, Yves Roisin and Farid Dahdouh-Guebas, Exploring the ecological interlinkages between mangrove and terrestrial forests

12:20–12:40 Flash Talk Session 2-F2 (Chaired by Alison Kim Shan Wee)

• 2-F2-1 (P003)   Nakatada Wachi, Documenting mangrove insects: diversity, habitat use, and ecological interactions on Iriomote Island, southwestern Japan

• 2-F2-2 (P037)  Mohammed Rizman-Idid, Tharshini Vilayan, Kishneth Palaniveloo and Rempei Suwa, Phylogenetics of Bruguiera spp. from the west coast of Peninsular Malaysia with emphasis on the population genetic structure of Bruguiera gymnorrhiza.

• 2-F2-3 (P057)  Ronny Peters, Britta Tietjen, Catherine Lovelock, Jack Hill, Uday Pimple, Ulf Mehlig and Uta Berger, How abiotic conditions shape mangrove - saltmarsh ecotones and what is the impact of climate change and sea level rise?

• 2-F2-4 (P084)  Age Kridalaksana, Christopher Barr, Cecilinia Tika Laura, Dedy Sukmara and Reza Widyananto, MapBiomas Indonesia: Annual Mangrove Mapping of Indonesia, 1990–2024.

• 2-F2-5 (P107)  Zhao-Jun Yong, Chiao-Wen Lin, Wei-Jen Lin, Chuan-Wen Ho, Pei-Luen Lu and Hsing-Juh Lin, Beyond soil emissions: Quantifying stem-mediated greenhouse gas fluxes across mangrove species and tidal cycles

• 2-F2-6 (P129)  Ivonne Batan, A Comparative Study On Carbon Pools Between Restored And Non-Restored Mangrove Ecosystems In Miami-Dade County

• 2-F2-7 (P150)  Thirumurugan Vedagiri, Anoop Raj Singh, Gnanasekaran G and Nehru Prabakaran, Community Structure, Recovery, and Factors Influencing Mangrove Recruitment in the Nicobar Islands, India

• 2-F2-8 (P167)  Thomas Dunlop, Stefan Felder, Laura Montano, Andrew Dansie and William Glamore, Evaluating ecosystem services with mangrove lifecycle modelling

13:40 Oral Session: Mangrove Forest Structure, Regeneration, and Ecohydrological Dynamics (Chaired by Koji Takayama)

• 2_P1_1  Peeruch Poommirat, Pimchanok Buapet and Aor Pranchai, Effect of Lumnitzera racemosa Leachate on Early Life Stages of Bruguiera Species in Thailand

• 2_P1_2  Jack W Hill, Vicki Bennion and Catherine E Lovelock, Mangrove root architecture

• 2_P1_3  A. Aldrie Amir, Mangrove canopy gaps: Determining thresholds for their natural regeneration dynamics

• 2_P1_4  Vicki Bennion, Jack W Hill, Valerie Kwan and Catherine E Lovelock, Very Large Mangrove Trees Provide Unique Services and Require Protection from Disturbance

• 2_P1_5  Emma Asbridge, Richard M Lucas, Colin D Woodroffe and Kerrylee Rogers, Geomorphological controls and factors arresting the development of tall mangrove forests

• 2_P1_6  Rogerio Soares Goncalves, Emma Asbridge, Jeffrey J. Kelleway, Colin Woodroffe, Richard Lucas and Kerrylee Rogers, Earth observations reveal the dynamics of mangroves, but persistent change is anticipated to be driven by sea-level rise

15:10–15:30 Flash Talk Session 2-F3 (Chaired by Gustavo Maruyama Mori)

• 2-F3-1 (P005)  Jazrel Pauline Hortaleza Kallos, Meiofaunal communities across different mangrove stand types in Southern Oriental Mindoro, Philippines

• 2-F3-2 (P039)  Lydia Bunn, Valerienne Elevtheria Angela, Alison Kim Shan Wee and Jennifer Rowntree, Comparison of genetic diversity between planted and natural mangrove stands in Malaysia

• 2-F3-3 (P059)  Neil Saintilan and Jingfan Zhang, Vulnerability of mangrove ecosystems to sea-level rise: results from the global Surface Elevation Table network

• 2-F3-4 (P086)  Lammert Hilarides, Global Mangrove Watch - From Earth Observation to Mangrove Conservation

• 2-F3-5 (P109)  Daniel Epron, Sumonta Kumar Paul, Rempei Suwa and Masako Dannoura, Insight into the large spatial and temporal variability in methane emission from the trunk and roots of two mangrove species in a subtropical mangrove forest

• 2-F3-6 (P131)  Julia Maria Teresa Bautista Javier and Pablina L. Cadiz, Estimating the carbon sequestration potential of Rhizophora stylosa Griff. rehabilitated fishponds in Negros Occidental, Philippines

• 2-F3-7 (P152)  Maia Patricia Garcia, Recovery of macrobenthos within mangrove-revegetated AUUs in Batan Estuary, Aklan, Philippines

• 2-F3-8 (P169)  Vincent van Zelst, Timothy Tiggeloven, Arjen Luijendijk, Mark Spalding, Thomas Worthington, Tim Leijnse and Bregje van Wesenbeeck, Adding a new dimension to the global flood protection value of mangroves and tidal marshes

16:00 Oral Session: Mangrove Ecosystem Function: Habitat Complexity, Services, and Biogeochemical Linkages (Chaired by Gustavo Mori)

• 2_P2_1(V)  Guerric Barrière, Grégory Charrier, Adeline Bidault, Marcos Tavares and Emma Michaud, Molecular tools for a rapid and robust identication of juvenile and female ocypodid mangrove crabs

• 2_P2_2  Shing Yip Lee, Rinaldi Gotama and Hei Nin Kwong, Quantifying the three-dimensional habitat complexity of mangroves for assessing processes underpinning ecosystem function and services

• 2_P2_3  Jeffrey Kelleway, Greg Noe, Ken Krauss, Laura Brophy, William Conner, Jamie Duberstein, Daniel Friess, Keryn Gedan, Elliott White Jr, Maria Fernanda Adame, Janine Adams, Rafael Carvalho, Alei Freddie, Igu Nwabueze Ikenna, Elsie Rivera Ocasio, Christopher Owers, Sigit Sasmito, Andrew Swales, Phoebe Stewart-Sinclair, Raymond Ward and Iñigo Zabarte-Maeztu, Mangroves and beyond: the diverse world of tidal forested wetlands

• 2_P2_4  Sofía María Alfonso-Velasco, Albane Aubry, Amrita Nair, Stefano Cannicci, Armando Jairo Cruz-Laufer, Jean Hugé, Ana Filipa Palmeirim, Martin Zimmer, Arimatéa C. Ximenes, Thomas Worthington, Alison K.S. Wee, Camilo Antonio Trench, Mathiventhan Thavanayagam, Stefanie Marcella Rog, Sarah Louise Robin, Alfredo Quarto, Gianluca Polgar, Jaime Polanía, Nasreen Peer, José Pavão Paula, Samuel Appiah Ofori, Sieuwnath Naipal, Nibedita Mukherjee, Gustavo Maruyama Mori, Esméralda Longépée, Hsing-Juh Lin, Luiz Drude Lacerda, Nico Koedam, Kathiresan Kandasamy, Tadashi Kajita, Mark Huxham, Claire Golléty, Daniel Friess, Sara Fratini, Clare Duncan, Norman Clive Duke, Marília Cunha-Lignon, Simon Mark Cragg, Jacob J. Bukoski, Uta Berger, Satyanarayana Behara, Salomão Olinda Bandeira, Irfan Aziz, Toe Toe Aung, Frederick Asante, Anna R. Armitage, Aldrie Amir, Janine Barbara Adams, Guilherme Abuchahla and Farid Dahdouh-Guebas, Holding the line: Functional insurance of mangrove social-ecological functions and the relative risk of ecosystem service loss

• 2_P2_5  Tzu-Chieh Chiu, Hsin-Hsun Wu, Wei-Jen Lin, Hsing-Juh Lin and Chiao-Wen Lin, Comparative Carbon Budgets of Terrestrial and Aquatic Lumnitzera racemosa Mangroves

• 2_P2_6  Samantha K Chapman, Aaron Freeman, Tess Adgie, Lisa G Chambers and J. Adam Langley, Blue nitrogen budgeting in ecotonal mangroves

17:30–17:50 Flash Talk Session 2-F4 (Chaired by  Amy Yee-Hui Then)

• 2-F4-1 (P007)  Evan K D’Alessandro, Ruth Kim, Julio Lopez and Rafael J Araújo, Benthic habitat patterns at the mangrove-bay ecotone of Biscayne Bay, Florida

• 2-F4-2 (P174)  Guilherme Abuchahla, Proxies of ecological connectivity between mangroves and the terrestrial realm,

• 2-F4-3 (P061)  Jessica Thorn, Seeding hope: Underestimated climate risks to mangroves and coastal communities in the Southwestern Indian Ocean

• 2-F4-4 (P088)  Jean-Francois Faure, Eric Delaitre, Thibault Catry, Elodie Blanchard, Romain Bouvier, Amanda Esparon and Pascal Mouquet, MangMap, an online platform using Earth Observation data for local-scale mangrove monitoring and management: current up-grades and future orientations.

• 2-F4-5 (P119)  Scott F Jones, Maija Zidek, Eliza Mazel, Adam Krogmann, Adam Langley and Samantha Chapman, Mangrove expansion shifts plant mediation of greenhouse gas fluxes at the marsh-mangrove ecotone in the Southeastern USA

• 2-F4-6 (P141)  Pablina Llera Cadiz, Hilconida Paalan Calumpong, Dianne Mira Arenas Yap, Flora Joyce Neri and Clint Gepanaga Alvior, Cabon Sequestration of B. sexangula (Loir) Poir. and R. stylosa Griff. Plantation in Ticao Island and South Negros, Philippines

• 2-F4-7 (P154)  Chiussie Libetario Emeterio, Fae Ucat and Frances Camille Rivera, Functional Structure of Macro-Invertebrate Communities Across Early Mangrove Rehabilitation Sites in Mindanao, Philippines

• 2-F4-8 (P171)  Matthew Vincent Tabilog, Polynne Dira, Tara Abrina, Abegail Gelantaga-an, Shiena May Espenida, Rey Lagutin, Dina Lagutin, Leonel Sanier, Quiresa Mae Montaño, Rey Obeda, Jayson Dela Fuente and Dixon Dixon Gevaña, Economic Valuation of Mangrove Ecosystem Services in Sagay City, Philippines

Day 3 (3 July 2026)

9:20 Keynote Talk (Chaired by Sara Fratini)

• 3_K1_1  Thomas Worthington, Conservation of the world’s mangroves: What progress has been made?

10:00–10:20 Flash Talk Session 3-F1 (Chaired by Harris Heng Wei Khang)

• 3-F1-1 (P009)  Giacomo Chini, Tommaso Marinoni, Giorgia Staffoni, Lorenzo Ballini, Sara Fratini, Bayden Russell and Stefano Cannicci, A comparison of Visual vs. Image-Based Approaches for Monitoring Mangrove Crab Communities.

• 3-F1-2 (P126)  Kingsley John De Los Santos, Mangrove Forest Structure and Carbon Storage Across Anthropogenic Marine Debris-Associated Disturbance Gradients in Western Visayas, Philippines.

• 3-F1-3 (P055)  Anoop Raj Singh and Nehru Prabakaran, Mangrove and local community responses to sea level drop following coastal uplift in North Andaman Islands, India

• 3-F1-4 (P090)  Nelson Miranda, David Fransch, Cesar Herrera Acosta, Anusha Rajkaran, Diego Roman Gloria, Akshata Mehta, Alison McNamara, Punyasloke Bhadury, Jimena Samper Villarreal, Michael Sievers, Soroush Abolfathi, Christopher Brown and Rod Connolly, From Map to Conversation: Democratizing Access to Global Mangrove Data with a Scientific Large Language Model

• 3-F1-5 (P121)  Faming Wang and Guoming Qin, Fiddler crab bioturbation stimulates methane emissions in mangroves: Insights into microbial mechanisms

• 3-F1-6 (P135)  Jingfan Zhang, Faming Wang and Neil Saintilan, Global Mangrove Organic Carbon Stocks, Sources, and Restoration Potential

• 3-F1-7 (P156)  Aninda Wisaksanti Rudiastuti and Rinny Rahmania, A Conceptual Framework for Assessing Mangrove Rehabilitation Recovery Trajectories: Integrating Vulnerability Approach and Multi-Temporal Remote Sensing

• 3-F1-8 (P173)  Aji Wahyu Anggoro, Yustina Octifanny, Dini Aprilia Norvyani, Nabilla Dina Adharina, Muhammad Ilman, Topik Hidayat, Mariski Nirwan, Basir Basir, Vabian Adriano, Rahmadi Muis, Muhammad Danie Al Malik and Andi Trisnawati, Perception of Mangrove Ecosystem Conservation: A Case of Silvofishery in East Kalimantan, Indonesia

10:50 Oral Session: Monitoring and Mapping Mangrove Change: From Remote Sensing to Policy (Chaired by Stefano Cannicci)

• 3_A1_1  Richard Ames MacKenzie, Rob Chancia, Jan van Aardt, Ken W. Krauss, Maxson Nithan, Eugene Eperium and Francis Ruegarong, Making Mangrove Elevation Monitoring Accessible: User-Friendly Methods for Integrating rSETs, LiDAR, and Data Platforms

• 3_A1_2  Uta Berger, Selina Baldauf, Antonia Marie Trott, Ronny Peters, Uday Pimple, Jack Hill, Catherine Lovelock and Britta Tietjen, A conceptual framework and open-source tool for characterising Mangrove-Salt-Marsh Ecotone patterns for early detection of changes in flooding regimes

• 3_A1_3  Catherine Waite, Mark Spalding, Maria Fernanda Adame, Christopher Brown, Pete Bunting, Emma Deeks, Clare Duncan, Daniel Friess, Nicholas Murray, Ryan O’Connell, Suvarna Punalekar, Lindsey Smart, Zhen Zhang and Thomas Worthington, Beyond Mangrove Loss: A Framework for Monitoring Degradation at a Global Scale

• 3_A1_4  Pete Bunting, Lammert Hilarides, Ake Rosenqvist, Paula Castro Brandão Vaz dos Santos, Jessica Rosenqvist, Thomas Worthington, Catherine Waite and Gregory Oakes, Global Mangrove Watch Extent and Change 1985 – 2025: Drivers and causes of change

• 3_A1_5  Wee Cheah, Tracking Mangrove Loss and Recovery in Malaysia with AlphaEarth Embeddings

• 3_A1_6  Jacob J Bukoski, Radhika Bhargava Gajre, Iris M Ford, Adriana Gonzalez, K.M. Ashraful Islam, Zhen Zhang, Joanna Acosta-Velázquez, Miguel Cifuentes-Jara, Daniel A Friess and Sylvia Wilson, A near-global assessment of national mangrove monitoring capacities and climate policy ambitions

12:20–12:40 Flash Talk Session 3-F2 (Chaired by Iori Mizukami)

• 3-F2-1 (P011)  Tommaso Marinoni, Giacomo Chini, Lorenzo Ballini, Giorgia Staffoni, Nur Hannah Abd Rahim, Mohamad Na’im Nurul A’in, Behara Satyanarayana, Sara Fratini and Stefano Cannicci, Impact of nipa palm (Nypa fruticans) and mud lobsters (Thalassina spp.) on mangrove crab communities

• 3-F2-2 (P045)  Masaki J Kobayashi, Yasuaki Akaji, Kiyosada Kawai and Tomomi Inoue, Transcriptional regulation of temperature-dependent seedling growth in two mangrove species

• 3-F2-3 (P065)  Jennifer Ruiz, Steven Pennings and Anna Armitage, Resistance and Resilience of Texas Mangroves to Two Major Disturbances

• 3-F2-4 (P092)  Kizashi Koga, Rizky Arif Nugroho and Ryo Kohsaka, What Drives Mangrove Forest Gains in Indonesia? A Causal Inference Analysis with Regional Comparative Perspective

• 3-F2-5 (P115)  Aguilar-Enriquez B.A., Smoak J.M, Breithaupt J.L., Romero I.C., Radabaugh K.R., Moyer R.P. and Rosenheim B.E., Regional Variability in Soil Organic Carbon Stabilization Across Carbonate Mangroves of Southwest Florida

• 3-F2-6 (P137)  Sai Qu, When Cities Reclaim Coasts: How Urban Forcing Switches Blue Carbon from Loss to Recovery in Singapore

• 3-F2-7 (P158)  Precious Bandiwan Jacob, Sean Paul Manalo, Ainalyn Nerves, Cristan Zablan, Maria Elisa Gerona-Daga, Dixon Gevaña and Severino III Salmo, ​Developing an Integrative and Locally Adaptive Mangrove Restoration Map for a Fisheries Management Area in the Philippines

• 3-F2-8 (P175)  María Fernanda Loayza, Nicolás Moity, David Guijarro and Sara Apolo, Ecosystems as natural classrooms for generating learning opportunities and participatory knowledge building: community science on biodiversity associated with mangrove ecosystems in the Galapagos

13:40 Oral Session: Mangrove Resilience under Climate Change and Sea-Level Rise 1 (Chaired by Rafael Araujo)

• 3_P1_1  William C Glamore, Bradley Henderson, Thomas Dunlop, Andrew Dansie, Salote Nasalo, Giulia Fiantanese, Jimmy Kereseka and Isoa Korovulavula, Predicting mangrove habitat extent – The evolution of causal approaches applied at mangrove restoration sites over the past 25 years.

• 3_P1_2  Heather A. Stewart, Kara R. Radabaugh and Rafael J. Araújo, Adaptive Management for Mangrove Islands Facing Coastal Inundation

• 3_P1_3  Sharyn Hickey, Marine Forests in Hot Water: Are mangroves the forgotten victim or unsung hero habitat of heatwaves?

• 3_P1_4  Martin Zimmer and Véronique Helfer, Climate change-resilience of mangrove forests and their potential for coastal socio-ecological resilience

14:40–15:00 Flash Talk Session 3-F3 (Chaired by Ariel Antinero)

• 3-F3-1 (P013)  Chen-Lu Lee, Yung-Chieh Chiu, Kwang-Tsao Shao, Yun-Chih Liao and Hsing-Juh Lin, Diet composition and trophic impact of an introduced hybrid grouper in coastal mangrove

• 3-F3-2 (P047)  Skylar Livengood, Samantha Chapman and Adam Langley, The impacts of nitrogen enrichment on black mangrove seedling establishment

• 3-F3-3 (P067)  Allie Durdall, Jeremiah Blondeau, Ken Krauss, Heather Stewart, Kaitlin Rommelfanger, Allison Holevoet and Kristin Grimes, Monitoring Mangrove Forest Structure Across the U.S. Virgin Islands: understanding recovery in the wake of two Category 5 hurricanes

• 3-F3-4 (P094)  Sikula Magupin, Sikula Magupin, Ejria Saleh, Farrah Anis Fazliatul Adnan, Joseph Tangah and Marrynah Matami, Remote Sensing-Based Assessment of Mangrove Health in Marudu Bay, Sabah, Malaysia

• 3-F3-5 (P117)  Daisy Jennifer Ruhlmann, Véronique Helfer, Alison Kim Shan Wee, Martin Zimmer and Victoria Wegner, Organic matter recalcitrance in Mangrove sediments and leaf litter: a thermogravimetric approach

• 3-F3-6 (P139)  Radhika Bhargava, Anabel Kadri, Maria Fernanda Adame, Stacy K. Baez, Natasha Bhatia, Jacob J. Bukoski, Miguel Cifuentes-Jara, Peter I. Macreadie, Sai Qu, Michiel van Breugel, Hao Tang and Daniel A. Friess, Mangroves in national mitigation targets: mapping inclusion patterns, gaps and future potential

• 3-F3-7 (P160)  Mohammad Sagar Islam, Discovering indicator for restoration endpoint: Hindcasting-forecasting shows spatial patterns of different mangrove species converge toward a common stable attractor

• 3-F3-8 (P177)  Emma Michaud, Marie-Christine Cormier-Salem, Marie Arnaud, Anne Bousquet-Melou, Philippe Cuny, François Fromard, Antoine Gardel, Claire Golléty, Swanne Gontharet, Esméralda Longépée, Cyril Marchand, Cécile Militon, Valérie Morel, Pierre-Yves Pascal, Tony Robinet, Aldo Sottolichio and Gérard Thouzeau, Mangroves in the Anthropocene: Challenges of Managing Complex Socio-Ecosystems in the Face of Global Change (the French initiative)

15:30 - 16:30  Oral Session: Mangrove Resilience under Climate Change and Sea-Level Rise 2 (Chaired by Rafael Araujo)

• 3_P1_5  David Armitage, Evolutionary phytochemistry and physiology of mangrove forests at their northern range margins

• 3_P1_6  Stijn Temmerman and Jean-Philippe Belliard, Does tidal regime matter? Overlooked impact of semi-diurnal versus diurnal tides on mangrove adaptability to sea level rise

• 3_P1_7  Kerrylee Rogers, Emma Asbridge, Rogerio Gonsalves, Chris Owers, Jeff Kelleway and Colin Woodroffe, The Complexity of Mangrove Forest Resilience in the Anthropocene

• 3_P1_8  Kiyoshi Fujimoto, Kenji Ono, Keita Furukawa, Shin Watanabe, Kodai Hasada and Eugene Eperiam, What is happening in the mangrove forests on Pohnpei Island in the Federated States of Micronesia, where rapid sea-level rise is progressing

16:30–16:50 Flash Talk Session 3-F4 Chaired by Bernadeth Grace Pananganan)

• 3-F4-1 (P015)  Mohammad Basyuni, Iori Mizukami, Yukinobu Isoawa, Arida Susilowati, Sakiko Yano and Tadashi Kajita, eDNA metabarcoding reveals mangrove-associated fish biodiversity in mangrove forest, Kubu Raya, West Kalimantan, Indonesia

• 3-F4-2 (P041)  Verónica Argelis González Quintero, Dendrochronological Exploration of Wood Anatomical Responses to Climate Change in Mangroves: China and Panama

• 3-F4-3 (P069)  Gabriela Thompson-Saud, Adam Canning and Norm Duke, Ten years after: tracking the recovery of extreme mangrove dieback in Australia’s Gulf of Carpentaria

• 3-F4-4 (P096)  Kim Calders, Jasper Feyen, Tobias Jackson, Atticus Stovall, Verginia Wortel and Frieke Vancoillie, New aboveground biomass reference estimates through terrestrial laser scanning

• 3-F4-5 (P111)  Giovanna Wolswijk, Behara Satyanarayana, Nurul Ain Mohd N’aim, Nur Hannah Abd Rahim and Farid Dahdouh-Guebas, Mangrove carbon contrasts: deltaic, estuarine, and lagoonal forests of Malaysia

• 3-F4-6 (P133)  Tim C. Jennerjahn, Felix Fallasch, Anne Siemons, Nora Wissner, Sophia Lauer, Judith Reise, Victoria Liste, Leon Janas, Luzhen Chen, Xiaoxuan Gu and Yue Meng, Opportunities and risks of Blue Carbon projects on the voluntary carbon market – the way forward

• 3-F4-7 (P162)  Fernanda Adame, Tony McAlister, Cesar Herrera-Acosta, Iresha Sumudumali, Krishna Risheharan, Michael Sievers, Shiv Umapathi, Jasmine M Hall, Nicholas Grundy and Rod Connolly, Recovery of ecosystem services from a constructed mangrove forest

• 3-F4-8 (P180)  Setondé Constant Gnansounou, Nicolas Dendoncker, Kolawolé Valère Salako, Farid Dahdouh-Guebas, Kara E. Pellowe, Florence De Longueville, Frédéric Silvestre, Romain Glèlè Kakaï, Patrick Kestemont and Sabine Henry, Mangrove Social-Ecological Resilience Appraisal (MaSERA): A novel interdisciplinary Framework and Application in Benin, West Africa

 Conference Dinner at Hotel Miyahira  (19:00–21:00)

MC (Alison Kim Shan Wee)

 (Information on foods (vege, no-meat etc) 

19:05:  Toast by Kiyoshi Fujimoto, Prof. Nanzan University. President of Japan Society for Mangroves.

20:00 - 20:15: Cultural Attraction: "Eisaa Dance" by "Ryukyu Koku Matsuri Daiko Yaeyama Branch"- (HP) ("Eisaa" is a traditional Okinawan dance performed to the rhythm of drums. It is traditionally performed during a particular period in summer to honor the spirits of ancestors.)

20:40 Lucky Prize Draw 

21:00 End of the Conference Dinner

Day 4 (4 July 2026)

9:20 Keynote Talk (Chaired by Mohammad Basyuni)

• 4_K1_1  Virni Budi Arifanti, Mangrove Blue Carbon as Nature-Based Solutions: Advancing Research and Governance in Indonesia

10:00–10:20 Flash Talk Session 4-F1 (Chaired by Marizka Juliano)

• 4-F1-1 (P018)  Emma Isabelle Rossouw, Sophie von der Heyden and Nasreen Peer, Unveiling Estuarine Diversity: Aquatic and Sedimentary eDNA Metabarcoding of Fish and Invertebrate Communities in South African Mangroves

• 4-F1-2 (P051)  Tobias Poprick, Nicolas Moity and Véronique Helfer, Variation of functional traits of three mangrove species across the Galapagos archipelago

• 4-F1-3 (P072)  Adam Canning and Norman Duke, When forests fall, fisheries falter: Climate-driven mangrove dieback affects fisheries

• 4-F1-4 (P099)  Guanzhen Liu, Marie-Christin Wimmler, Rico Fischer, Volker Grimm and Uta Berger, Overcoming the ground-truth bottleneck in mangrove biomass estimation: Coupling individual-based modelling with LiDAR simulations

• 4-F1-5 (P114)  Wei-Jen Lin, Jun-Yuan Lai, Chiao-Wen Lin and Hsing-Juh Lin, Linking stand age to carbon burial and productivity in Kandelia obovata mangroves

• 4-F1-6 (P144)  Valerie Kwan, Jed Calvert, Renee A. Rossini, Valerie Hagger and Catherine E. Lovelock, Environmental market opportunities constrained by land tenure

• 4-F1-7 (P163)  Noa Ligot, Vicky Stratigaki, Jelle Evenepoel, Mathieu Wille, Emile Lemey, Ignace Stols, Dominic De Prins, Andrea Sofia Reyes Chejin, Julia Peláez Ávila, Marlies Kimpe, Julie Nieto Wigby, Bernd Herremans, Evelyne Blondeel, Maria Ibanez, Renaat De Sutter, Boris Bohorquez, Stijn Temmerman and Farid Dahdouh-Guebas, AquaForest: A Nature-Based Approach for Mangrove Restoration, Climate Adaptation, and Carbon Mitigation in the Guayas Delta

• 4-F1-8 (P182)  Preeyaphat Chaiklang, Daniel Karthe, Carsten Schusser and Lukas Giessen, Governance gaps in mangrove management: A case study of actor power relations and climate vulnerability in Thailand

10:50 Oral Session: Greenhouse Gas Fluxes and Blue Carbon Dynamics in Mangrove Ecosystems (Chaired by Lee Shing Yip)

• 4_A1_1  Dina Nethisa Rasquinha, Zulia M. Sánchez Mejia, Jorge M. Uuh Sonda, Ma. Susana Alvarado Barrientos, Bernardo Figueroa Espinoza, Carlo A. Domínguez Eusebio, C. Anibal Silva Ontiveros, Julio A. Salas Rabaza, Myrbeth Madueño Moreno, Gabriela Cerón, Oliver López-Corona, Julian Equihua, Juan Carlos Lopez, Gonzalo Sanson, Frida Castillo, Alejandro Corona, Alejandra Calzada, Dominic Andradi-Brown, David Thau and Shaun Martin, ManglarIA, leveraging AI to monitor carbon fluxes in Mexico’s priority mangrove sites

• 4_A1_2  Jonathan Gewirtzman, Elisabeth Powell, Frannie Adams, Sean Charles, Lin Xiong, Atticus Stovall, Cheryl Doughty, Erin Delaria, Glenn Wolfe, Judith Rosentreter, Derrick Vaughn, Benjamin Poulter, David Lagomasino and Peter Raymond, Mangrove methane emissions intensified by hurricane disturbance in the Florida coastal Everglades

• 4_A1_3  Julio A. Salas-Rabaza, José Luis Andrade, M. Susana Alvarado-Barrientos, Rachel Collin, James P. Cronin, Masako Dannoura, Daniel Epron, Daniel Friess, Vincent Gauci, Jonathan Gewirtzman, Jiafang Huang, Luke C. Jeffrey, Erik Kristensen, Lukas Lamb-Wotton, Chiao-Wen Lin, Hsing-Juh Lin, Min Luo, J. Patrick Megonigal, Sunitha R. Pangala, Sumonta K. Paul, Judith A. Rosentreter, Frédéric Thalasso and Haichao Zhou, Tree-mediated greenhouse gas fluxes in mangrove forests: A globally overlooked pathway

• 4_A1_4  Naima Iram, Vo Quoc Tuan, Jamie Yeo, Muhammad Ariq Khalingga, Huynh Nhat Hao, Huynh Trung Tinh and Daniel A Friess, Ecological constraints on blue carbon in the Mekong Delta Mangroves

• 4_A1_5  José Ernesto Mancera-Pineda and Jairo Medina, Linking Hydroperiod, Resources, And Carbon Accumulation In Karstic Open-Water Mangroves

• 4_A1_6  Zoë I. Shribman, Tannia Frausto-Illescas, Lukas Lamb-Wotton, Celeste Ortega-Trasviña, Gabriela J. Reyes, Zulia Mayari Sánchez-Mejía, Jony Ramiro Torres and Daniel Friess, Mangrove soil carbon fluxes across geomorphic gradients in arid Baja California Sur: environmental drivers and implications

12:20–12:40 Flash Talk Session 4-F2 (Chaired by Leanne Yee)

• 4-F2-1 (P020)  Giorgia Staffoni, Lorenzo Ballini, Stefano Cannicci, Tommaso Marinoni, Giacomo Chini, Chiara Vergata, Francesca Coscione, Bayden Dwight Russell and Sara Fratini, Environmental DNA-based monitoring as an alternative to traditional methods: a case study from Hong Kong mangroves

• 4-F2-2 (P052)  Maxwell D. Portmann, Ilka C. Feller, Donna J. Devlin and C. Edward Proffitt, Structural and Functional Trait Relationships of 3 Mangrove Species Along a Latitudinal Gradient on the Florida (USA) Atlantic Coast

• 4-F2-3 (P074)  Masaya Yoshikai, Takashi Nakamura, Julia C. Mullarney and Kazuo Nadaoka, Assessment of cyclone impacts on wave-induced sediment erosion in fringing mangrove forests

• 4-F2-4 (P100)  Keisuke Yanehashi, Enhancing Blue Carbon MRV with GEDI-Derived Mangrove Canopy Height Mapping: A Case Study from Komi Bay, Iriomote Island

• 4-F2-5 (P124)  Verginia Wortel, Raisa Abendanon, Annmarie Ngu Chin Tjon, Dirk Noordam, Jasper Feyen and Merdy Sewotaroeno, Relationship Between Tree Size, Soil Organic Carbon, Pneumatophore Productivity And Abundance Of The Avicennia germinans Mangrove Tree Species In Suriname

• 4-F2-6 (P146)  Paula Castro Brandão Vaz dos Santos, Pete Bunting, Andy Hardy, Lammert Hilarides, Kate Longley-Wood and Thomas Worthington, Identifying Optimal Mangrove Regions for Blue Carbon Conservation: A Marxan-Driven Approach to Doubling Conservation Goals

• 4-F2-7 (P164)  Benjamin Scheelk, Large-Scale Mangrove Restoration and Rehabilitation in the Jobos Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, Puerto Rico

• 4-F2-8 (P185)  Juliette Bidon Rollet, Esméralda Longépée and Marie-Christine Cormier-Salem, How participation reshapes social representations of mangroves: insights from a restoration project in Cameroon.

13:40 Oral Session: Blue Carbon Accounting, Ecosystem Services, and Restoration Outcomes (Chaired by Behara Satyanarayana)

• 4_P1_1(V)  Sudip Debnath, Sahadev Sharma and Nilanjana Das Chatterjee, Accounting for Blue Carbon in Young Mangrove Restoration: Allometric Models and Biomass Dynamics of Pioneer Mangroves in the Indian Sundarbans

• 4_P1_2  Hsing-Juh Lin, Short-term carbon sink enhancement and ecosystem responses of mangrove restoration in an abandoned fish ponds

• 4_P1_3  Ingrid Julieth Estrada Galindo, Cesar Herrera Acosta and Fernanda Adame Vivanco, Measuring mangrove ecosystem services: how methods shape what we value and prioritise

• 4_P1_4  Mirco Wölfelschneider, Vanessa Hatje, Véronique Helfer and Martin Zimmer, Where does Mangrove-Derived Organic Matter Go? Molecular Tracing of Blue Carbon Pathways

• 4_P1_5  Khady Diallo, Djibril Diop, Malamine Manga, Layla Olefs, Giovanna Wolswijk, Behara Satyanarayana, Khady Diouf Goudiaby and Farid Dahdouh-Guebas, Carbon Storage in Natural and Restored Mangroves of the Sine-Saloum Delta (Senegal): Influence of Protection Status and Restoration Interventions

• 4_P1_6  Daniel Friess, Radhika Bhargava Gajre, Aldrie A. Amir, Virni B. Arifanti, Toe Aung, Preeyaphat Chaiklang, Dixon Gevaña, Trinh Thuc Hien, San San Htay, Soon Loong Lee, Kay Khaing Lwin, Domingos Mook, Chhinh Nyda, Uday Oimple, Jay Mar D. Quevedo, Severino Salmo, Sigit D. Sasmito, Zoë I. Shribman, Frida Sidik, Truong Van Vinh, Tuan Quoc Vo and Zhen Zhang, Status, potential and constraints to mangrove blue carbon in Southeast Asia

15:10–15:30 Flash Talk Session 4-F3 (Chaired by Sakib Nazmus)

• 4-F3-1 (P023)  Jinping Cheng, Exploring Hidden Biodiversity in Mangrove Ecosystems: An eDNA Metabarcoding Approach

• 4-F3-2 (P053)  Gabriela Cerón-Aguilera, Julio A. Salas-Rabaza, Laura Yáñez-Espinosa, Rodrigo Méndez-Alonzo, Ileana Echevarría-Machado, Roberth Us-Santamaría and José Luis Andrade, Physiological Decoupling of Sap Flow and Energy Balance Drives Thermoregulatory Vulnerability in Scrub Mangroves

• 4-F3-3 (P077)  Danielle Evonne Ogurcak, Adalena Band, Katherine Colón-Lozada, Zoë Shribman and Gabriela Reyes, Linking hydrologic regime to recovery failure in post-hurricane disturbed mangrove forests of south Florida and southeastern Puerto Rico, USA

• 4-F3-4 (P101)  Elodie Blanchard, Quentin Marsal, Thibault Catry, Maxime Dutour, Benoit Béguet, Valdenira Ferreira dos Santos and Christophe Proisy, Monitoring mangrove carbon stocks under extreme coastal change in French Guiana

• 4-F3-5 (P187)  Hannah Morrissette, Ninon Martinez, Tania Romero, Alejandra Ramírez, Stacy Baez, Kate Meyer, Anelise Zimmer and Steven Canty, Moving data to decisions: Science‑based mangrove conservation, case studies from Central America

• 4-F3-6 (P025)  Rod M Connolly, Anusha Rajkaran, Punyasloke Bhadury, Jimena Samper-Villarreal, Michael Sievers, Cesar Herrera, Alison McNamara, Nelson Miranda, Diego Gloria and Christopher J Brown, Mangrove wildlife and biodiversity: automated monitoring of local, regional and global trends

• 4-F3-7 (P054)  Shinichi Tatsumi and Nobuo Imai, Spatial scale reverses the relationship between stand structural diversity and mangrove productivity in Ranong, Thailand

• 4-F3-8 (P079)  Pierre-Yves Pascal, Célia Georges, Mathias Gerenius, Amélia Chatagnon, Olivier Gros and Charlotte Dromard, Impact of Sargassum stranding on macrofauna and meiofauna in mangrove of Guadeloupe (French West Indies)

16:00 Oral Session: Practical Mangrove Restoration: Rehabilitation, Substrates, and Implementation Pathways (Chaired by Amy Yee-Hui Then)

• 4_P2_1  Camilo Antonio Trench, Ashleigh McIntosh and Khianna Lee, Aiming for new growth, conserving the old growth; mangrove rehabilitation in two mangrove forests in Jamaica

• 4_P2_2  Kristin Grimes, Allie Durdall, Sarai Hutchinson, Allison Holevoet, Ken Krauss, Camilo Trench, Marilyn Brandt, Megan Anthony and Lorely Grenados, Nursery and field experiments reveal species-specific outcomes using recycled crushed glass and Sargassum as growth media for Rhizophora mangle and Laguncularia racemosa seedlings

• 4_P2_3  Maria-Esther Espinoza-Celi, Bettie Samain, Ken Schoutens, Jean-Philippe Belliard, Gregory S. Fivash, Andrea Reyes-Chejin, Noa Ligot, Vicky Stratigaki, Jelle Evenepoel, Grace Caceres-Lucio, Luis Dominguez-Granda, John Ramos-Veliz and Stijn Temmerman, How do mangrove propagule survival and growth changes in different dredged sediment types and tidal inundation stress levels?

• 4_P2_4  Paul L.A. Erftemeijer, Anthony R. Bougher, Matt J. Jury, Jamie Machin and Roy R. Lewis III, Environmental Impacts of Dredging on Mangroves: Evidence, Challenges and Opportunities

• 4_P2_5  Mirco Wölfelschneider, Steffen Swoboda, Véronique Helfer, Amali Abraham Amali, Judith Matz, Jonas Hunfeldt-Häutle, Charlotte Imenkamp, Viola Schaber, Andreas Oschlies and Martin Zimmer, Identifying key steps and constraints for the implementation of mangrove forest (re-)establishment with the CDRatlas

• 4_P2_6  Norman Duke, Adam Canning and Gabriela Thompson-Saud, Threats to coastal mangroves, carbon sequestration and fisheries habitat being revealed in recent investigations of damaged shorelines of northern Australia

17:30–17:50 Flash Talk Session 4-F4 (Chaired by Thanuja Priyadarshika)

• 4-F4-1 (P102)  Madeline Goddard, Vicki Bennion, Catherine Lovelock and Lindsay Hutley, A coordinated regional approach to monitoring vertical elevation trends in mangroves

• 4-F4-2 (P190)  Matthew Vincent Tabilog, Genea Nichole Cortez, Jerwin Baure, Mark David De Guzman, Ma. Nikka Andrea Oquias, Kisha Erah Muaña, Josiah David Quising, Bernard John Prodenciado, Charles Joseph Nicolas and Paolo Miguel Alpay, Ecological and Legal Implications of the Proposed Development in a Ramsar Site in Metro Manila, Philippines

• 4-F4-3 (P028)  Léa Fourchault, Cora Scazzola, Sophie Gryseels, Tan Hock Seng, Farah Shafawati Mohd Taib, Nur Juliani Shafie, Izwandy Idris, Millawati Gani, Farid Dahdouh-Guebas and Behara Satyanarayana, A One Health network analysis of domestic and sylvatic fauna across mangrove and adjacent anthropogenic habitats

• 4-F4-4 (P081)  Huran Tonalli Drouet-Cruz, Satyanarayana Behara, Giovanna Wolswijk, Ahmad Aldrie Amir and Farid Dahdouh-Guebas, The Lightning Thief: How Much Mangrove Biomass Is Lifted And At Which Socioeconomic Risk?

• 4-F4-5 (P103)  Ebuka Nwobi, Mangrove Forest Mapping: Lessons Learnt and Next Steps from Establishing Blue Carbon Project Baselines Across West Africa

• 4-F4-6 (P193)  Esméralda Longépée, Laura Juillard, François Beudard and Claire Golléty, Lessons learned from 10 years of transdisciplinary research on the mangroves of Mayotte Island: successes and limits

• 4-F4-7 (P031)  Punyasloke Bhadury, Ecological health status of Integrated Mangrove Aquaculture (IMA)- integrating water quality index with aquatic microbiome

• 4-F4-8 (P104)  Szu-Ju Wu, Hsing-Juh Lin, Hsun-Ying Wang and Sheng-Hsiung Hung, Enhancing the Management of Estuarine Mangrove Blue Carbon Through High-Frequency IoT Monitoring

Day 5

9:20 Keynote Talk (Chaired by Stefano Cannicci)

• 5_K1_1  Farid Dahdouh-Guebas, Stefano Cannicci, Daniel A. Friess, Behara Satyanarayana, Mark Spalding, Dominic A. Andradi-Brown, Irfan Aziz, Mwita M. Mangora, Clare Duncan, Edward B. Barbier, Tadashi Kajita, Catherine E. Lovelock, Ahmad Aldrie Amir, Jurgenne H. Primavera, Norman C. Duke, David J. Curnick, Simon Cragg, Mark Huxham, Dominic Wodehouse, Nico Koedam, Martin Zimmer, Tarik Meziane, Marília Cunha-Lignon, Alfredo Quarto, Ilka Candy Feller, Sara Fratini, Jaime Polanía and Joe S.Y. Lee, Once upon a time… the mangrove, and its myths and misconceptions

10:00 Oral Session: From Policy to Practice: Nature-based Solutions and Community-centred Mangrove Management (Chaired by Rod Connolly)

• 5_A1_1  Severino III Salmo, Mangrove biodiversity and “blue carbon” reflects international priorities but lacks local integration: Lessons and management implications

• 5_A1_2  Claudia Michelle Deveaux Garrido, Sandesh Lamsal, Rafael Araújo, Brian Haus and Landolf Rhode-Barbarigos, Integrating biophysical modeling and community codesign to predict wave attenuation capacity across growth stages of Rhizophora mangle

• 5_A1_3  Rebeca Biancardi, Jessica Thorn, Adam Hejnowicz and Maxwell Ryding, What evidence exists for the use of mangroves as nature-based solutions for coastal adaptation in urban and peri-urban settlements across the West African coastline?

• 5_A1_4(V)  Andri Hendrizal, Amy Then Yee Hui, Riska Fatmawati, Rina Drita Sibagariang and Firdaus Ln, Participatory Mapping Study of Local Mangrove Ecosystem Management in Three Indonesian Coastal Communities

• 5_A1_5  Lanie Esch, Dominic Andradi-Brown, Mark Spalding and Thomas Worthington, Turning global mangrove commitments into measurable action

• 5_A1_6  Elisa Lopez Garcia, Leveraging Blue Carbon for Community-Centred Mangrove Management: the West Africa Blue Intervention Framework

• 5_A1_7  Dominic Andradi-Brown, Lydia Slobodian, Christina Buelow, Jaramar Villarreal-Rosas, Mangrove Science for Action SESYNC Working Group and Christopher J Brown, Evaluating the impacts of integrated mangrove conservation approaches across scales - how do protected areas and national laws and policies combine to affect rates of mangrove loss?

• 5_A1_8  Adiilah Aungraheeta, Mangrove Matters: Integrating technology, education and communities for sustainable coastal onservation on a small oceanic island

13:20 Oral Session: Socio-ecological Systems, Local Knowledge, and Human Well-being in Mangrove Landscapes (Chaired by Dan Friess)

• 5_P1_1  Mwita Marwa Mangora, Complex Community Participation and Inconsistent Governance Framework Jeopardises Mangrove Restoration: the case of Rufiji Delta, Tanzania

• 5_P1_2  Farid Dahdouh-Guebas, Gordon Ajonina†, Frederick Asante, Simon C. Cragg, Jim Enright, Setondé Constant Gnansounou, Udara Vishwa Gunathilaka, Sunanda Kodikara Arachillage, Laura Michie, Alfredo Quarto, Samuel Appiah Ofori, Ganiyat Temidayo Sailu, Behara Satyanarayana, Windika Sameeth Warnasuriya Thanthirige, Dominic Wodehouse, Jurgenne H. Primavera and Marta Vannucci†, Embracing century-old invasive species in mangrove forests is an opportunity for IWP-AEP transfer of traditional ecological knowledge

• 5_P1_3  Jaramar Villarreal Rosas, What is the impact of mangrove restoration on human well-being? A systematic review

• 5_P1_4  Sean Yeo, Kingpai Koosakulnirund, Patrick Waeber and Claude Garcia, Chailen: A Participatory Strategy Game to Rethink Mangrove Restoration Governance

• 5_P1_5  Laura Montano, Brad Henderson, Dana Tothova, Andrew Dansie and William Glamore, Review Of Traditional Use Of Mangrove Ecosystems In Oceania

• 5_P1_6  Kinsey Blumenthal, David Lagomasino, Stephanie Richards, Lawrence Reeves, Rachel Gittman and Aaron Kipp, Mangrove Mosquitoes

15:20 Oral Session: Disturbance, Degradation, and Carbon Consequences in Mangrove Ecosystems (Chaired by Itchika Sivaipram)

• 5_P2_1  Lyle Dennis Vorsatz, Mandy Wing Kwan So, Chun On Cheung, Christelle Not and Stefano Cannicci, Plastic bag deposition reshapes macrofaunal structure and function in mangrove mudflats: temporary refuge or ecological trap?

• 5_P2_2  Annabel Green, Jeffrey Kelleway, Kerrylee Rogers, Owen Price, Colin Woodroffe, Shamaram Eichmann and Norm Lenehan, Mangrove resilience to a changing climate hindered by bushfire impact

• 5_P2_3  Quentin Marsal, Christophe Proisy, Thibault Catry, Elodie Blanchard, Maxime Dutour and Jean-Luc Maeght, Improving the fine-scale characterization of the structural diversity of mangrove forests in French Guiana to refine carbon mapping

• 5_P2_4  Raymond D. Ward, Luis Drude de Lacerda, Aline da Silva Cerqueira, Omar Celis Hernandez and Ian Hendy, Carbon sequestration in semi-arid mangrove soils of northeast Brazil

• 5_P2_5  Gustavo Maruyama Mori, Gabriel Tofanelo Vanin, André Guilherme Madeira, Milton Costa Lima-Neto and Pietra Reis di Gregorio, Testing for Avicennia germinans long- and short-term local adaptation using common garden experiments

• 5_P2_6  Lukas Lamb-Wotton, Maria Fernanda Adame, Janine Adams, Virni Budi Arifanti, M. Susana Alvarado-Barrientos, Thomas Bornman, Daniel Buttner, Luzhen Chen, Daniel Epron8, Bradley D. Eyre, Britte van Haastregt, Jorge Hoyos-Santillan, Jonathan Gewirtzman, Lucienne Human6, Naima Iram, Guanghui Lin, Wataru Nakamura, Sumonto Kumar Paul, Qiao Peiyang, Guoming Qin, Raghab Ray, Judith A. Rosentreter, Julio A. Salas-Rabaza, Zoë Shribman, James Z. Sippo, Faming Wang, Jacob Z.-Q. Yeo and Daniel Friess, Global-scale patterns and drivers of mangrove soil carbon and nitrogen vertical fluxes

17:00-18:00 Closing Session

 MC by Alison Kim Shan Wee

• Memorial of mangrove scientists  by Guilherme Abuchahla

• Wrap-up of MMM7 Organization by Tadashi Kajita

• Best Presentation Award by Amy Yee-Hui Then

• Introduction of MMM8 by Lee Shing Yip

• Closing Remarks by Shigeyuki Baba