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Ecosystem Services and Disservices of Mangrove Forests and Salt Marshes
Coastal wetlands such as mangrove forests and salt marshes provide a range of important
benefits to people, broadly defined as ecosystem services. These include provisioning services such
as fuelwood and food, regulating services such as carbon sequestration and wave attenuation, and
various tangible and intangible cultural services. However, strong negative perceptions of coastal
wetlands also exist, often driven by the perceived or actual ecosystem disservices that they also
produce
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