Lukas Lamb-Wotton, Tulane University, Earth and Environmental Sciences, New Orleans, United States, Maria Fernanda Adame, Griffith University, Centre for Marine and Coastal Research, Queensland, Australia, Janine Adams, Nelson Mandela University, South African Environmental Network (SAEON), Elwandle Coastal Node,, Port Elizabeth, South Africa, Virni Budi Arifanti, National Research and Innovation Agency, Research Center for Ecology and Ethnobiology, Jakarta, Indonesia, Thomas G Bornman, Nelson Mandela University, South African Environmental Observation Network (SAEON), Elwandle Coastal Node, Port Elizabeth, South Africa, Daniel Buttner, Nelson Mandela University, South African Environmental Network (SAEON), Elwandle Coastal Node, Port Elizabeth, South Africa, Luzhen Chen, Xiamen University, College of the Environment and Ecology, Xiamen, China, Daniel Epron, Kyoto University, Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto, Japan, Jorge Hoyos-Santillan, University of Eastern Finland, School of Forest Science, Kuopio, Finland, Lucienne Human, Nelson Mandela University, South African Environmental Observation Network (SAEON), Elwandle Coastal Node, Port Elizabeth, South Africa, Naima Iram, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore, Guanghui Lin, Tsinghua University, Department of Earth Science, Beijing, China, Wataru Nakamura, University of Tokyo, Department of Socio-Cultural Environmental Studies, Chiba, Japan, Raghab Ray, Energy Resources Institute, Goa, India, Judith Rosentreter, Centre for Coastal Biogeochemistry - Southern Cross University, Lismore, Australia, Julio Salas Rabaza, Yucatan Scientific Research Center, Natural Resources Division, Merida, Mexico and Dan Friess, Tulane University, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, New Orleans, United States