However, a much greater number of articles have been published concerning Antarctica than on mangrove
ecosystems throughout the entire period, as shown in Table 1 (a 2.4-fold higher average publication rate).
Notably, the first article on Antarctica was published in 1901. Altogether, these data clearly indicate that
mangrove ecosystems were relatively unnoticed by scientists for more than 80 years. In fact, the importance of
mangrove wetlands was acknowledged by the scientific community only after 1978, when the United Nations
Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) scientific committee established a working group
on mangrove ecology to assess its importance (Sandilyan & Kathiresan, 2012).