Romil Dandan, Assessment of Mangroves and their multiple benefits to economy, society and environment has emerged key areas of research and action programmes, especially after the Asian Tsunami, 2004. The reason was that Mangroves have been found to be quite useful in containing the tsunami waves in the coastal areas where there were mangrove plantations. Now coming to your question, there are several methodological approaches being used by researchers worldover to assess the impacts of mangroves. One major approach is the Total Economic Valuation (TEV) approach proposed by Barbier (1994), which is a comprehensive approach to valuation of mangroves even from the ecosystem protection and sustainable development perspectives. You may start by mapping and assessing the physical growth of mangrove plantations in various environmental/ ecological conditions and then try to assess the multiple benefits to various stakeholders, who are the beneficiaries of mangrove plantations, especially, the local (village) communities. One important aspect to be considered in the assessment is to see the role of local communities and other stakeholders in the sustainable development and management of the mangrove resources. You may please read couple of my research work as follows, which would give you some idea on the existing research and assessment methods currently being used in the case of assessment of impacts of mangroves.

Abundance by plant cover, diversity by counting species

Thank you very much M. Cooper

Attaching few papers for your references

I've done a research on abundance and spread of invasive alien species. Check out the full paper for the procedures .

Article Assessment on the distribution and spread of invasive alien ...

I'm sorry I have no information on the subject but you just have to do a bibliographic search there are several articles on this subject like

Global Patterns of Diversity in Mangrove Floras

Robert E. Ricklefs and Roger Earl Latham

Linda Cheriak thank you.

Could you please download and use the papers where elaborate method is described. Good Luck

Tropical Ecology. 49: 183-188

Int.J.Ecol.Env.Sci.38_101-107

You can also download from vpupadhyay.org

You can consult these books - description gvn in details

Article Plant Composition and Diversity of Sibuti Mangrove Forest, S...

Article Plant Composition and Diversity of Sibuti Mangrove Forest, S...

Thanks you very much Nebras Sahi

You can consult these books.

Best Wishes,

Dr Abhijit Mitra, is it possible to get the link to the volume on mangroves and the chapters?

Thank you for sharing your knowledge

Quite resourceful chapters.