About the Authors

Monika Ruwaimana

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

monruw@gmail.com

‡ These authors are co-first authors on this work.

Affiliations Systems Ecology and Resource Management, Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Brussels, Belgium, Ecology and Biodiversity (APNA), Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Brussels, Belgium, Department of Biology, Universitas Atma Jaya Yogyakarta, Yogyakarta, Indonesia

Behara Satyanarayana

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors are co-first authors on this work.

Affiliations Systems Ecology and Resource Management, Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Brussels, Belgium, Mangrove Research Unit (MARU), Institute of Oceanography and Environment, Universiti Malaysia Terengganu (UMT), Kuala Terengganu, Malaysia

Viviana Otero

Roles Investigation, Software, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Systems Ecology and Resource Management, Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Brussels, Belgium

Aidy M. Muslim

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Mangrove Research Unit (MARU), Institute of Oceanography and Environment, Universiti Malaysia Terengganu (UMT), Kuala Terengganu, Malaysia

Muhammad Syafiq A.

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Mangrove Research Unit (MARU), Institute of Oceanography and Environment, Universiti Malaysia Terengganu (UMT), Kuala Terengganu, Malaysia

Sulong Ibrahim

Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Resources

Affiliation Mangrove Research Unit (MARU), Institute of Oceanography and Environment, Universiti Malaysia Terengganu (UMT), Kuala Terengganu, Malaysia

Dries Raymaekers

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Supervision

Affiliation Vlaamse Instelling voor Technologisch Onderzoek (VITO), Mol, Belgium

Nico Koedam

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Ecology and Biodiversity (APNA), Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Brussels, Belgium

Farid Dahdouh-Guebas

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Systems Ecology and Resource Management, Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Brussels, Belgium, Ecology and Biodiversity (APNA), Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Brussels, Belgium

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.