Project leader

Miguel Fortes

University of the Philippines

Miguel Fortes is a Professor of Marine Science (retired) with academic grounding in the Philippines, USA and Germany; 30 years’ experience in tropical coastal research and management; member of the International Blue Carbon Scientific Working Group (CI/IUCN/UNESCO), Species Survival Commission (Seagrass Specialist Group IUCN), Tourism and Protected Areas Specialist Group (IUCN) and CTI Climate Change Adaptation Technical Working Group; Coordinator of APN ARCP2013-02CMY-Fortes, JSPS Asian CORE Project and Head, UNESCO IOC-WESTPAC Regional Secretariat; 147 scientific journal articles and books; with 18 awards including the UNESCO Chair and the International Biwako Prize for Ecology and Research Professorship in the University of Tokyo.

Projects

Project • CBA2020-05SY-Kohsaka

Enhancing capacities of local stakeholders in Coral Triangle in managing Blue Carbon Ecosystems for climate mitigation and adaptation

Project • ARCP2012-19NSY-Kamal

Assessing Climate Change Impacts on Salt Marsh and Seagrass Ecosystems in the South and South East Asian Coasts

Project • ARCP2013-02CMY-Fortes, ARCP2012-02CMY-Fortes, ARCP2011-12NMY-Fortes

Seagrass-Mangrove Ecosystems: Bioshields against Biodiversity Loss and Impacts of Local and Global Change along Indo-Pacific Coasts (the Seagrass-Mangrove Bioshield Project, SMBP)

Recent work

Peer-reviewed publication • 2018

Seagrass ecosystem conservation in Southeast Asia needs to link science to policy and practice

Peer-reviewed publication • 2017

Drawbacks of mangrove rehabilitation schemes: Lessons learned from the large-scale mangrove plantations

Peer-reviewed publication • 2016

Mangrove plantation over a limestone reef – Good for the ecology?

Peer-reviewed publication • 2013

A Review: Biodiversity, Distribution and Conservation of Philippine Seagrasses

Conference material • 2012

Asia-Pacific Network for Global Change Research

Asia-Pacific Network for Global Change Research

Miguel Fortes

Projects

Enhancing capacities of local stakeholders in Coral Triangle in managing Blue Carbon Ecosystems for climate mitigation and adaptation

Assessing Climate Change Impacts on Salt Marsh and Seagrass Ecosystems in the South and South East Asian Coasts

Seagrass-Mangrove Ecosystems: Bioshields against Biodiversity Loss and Impacts of Local and Global Change along Indo-Pacific Coasts (the Seagrass-Mangrove Bioshield Project, SMBP)

Recent work

Seagrass ecosystem conservation in Southeast Asia needs to link science to policy and practice

Drawbacks of mangrove rehabilitation schemes: Lessons learned from the large-scale mangrove plantations

Mangrove plantation over a limestone reef – Good for the ecology?

A Review: Biodiversity, Distribution and Conservation of Philippine Seagrasses

Seagrass response to mariculture-induced physico-chemical gradients in Bolinao, northwestern Philippines