“…These forests are tropical and subtropical salt-tolerant ecosystems that grow along coastlines around the world (Tomlinson, 1986). They are one of the most productive and economically important ecosystems on the planet; they house a wide variety of marine and terrestrial species (Alongi, 2002) and provide numerous environmental services, including capture and storage of CO 2 (Donato et al, 2011), accretion of sediments, protection of seashores (Alongi, 2008) and biofiltering of heavy metals (Analuddin et al, 2017;Keller, Wilson, Reeve, & Platenberg, 2017;Marchand, Fernández, & Moreton, 2016;Yan, Sun, Zhang, & Li, 2017). Furthermore, these forests have been subjected to past climate events and sea level changes that have impacted the genome-wide nucleotide diversity of mangrove species (Guo, Li, et al, 2018;Xu et al, 2017), allowing demographic variations to be traced back and compared between gene pools within the same species.…”