The Need for a Holistic Approach in Mangrove Research and Management -- MADAM, Concept and Reality -- Geography and Biogeochemistry -- The Geography of the Bragança Coastal Region -- Palaeoenvironmental Reconstruction -- The Biogeochemistry of the Caeté Mangrove-Shelf System -- Floristic and Faunistic Studies in Mangroves -- Mangrove Vegetation of the Caeté Estuary -- Mangrove Infauna and Sessile Epifauna -- Dynamics in the Mangrove System -- Drivers of Temporal Changes in Mangrove Vegetation Boundaries and Consequences for Land Use -- System Processes and Forest Development -- Synoptic Analysis of Mangroves for Coastal Zone Management -- Ecology and Fishery of Fin-Fish in the Mangrove System -- Distribution Pattern of Fish in a Mangrove Estuary -- Dynamics in Mangrove Fish Assemblages on a Macrotidal Coast -- An Evaluation of the Larval Fish Assemblage in a North Brazilian Mangrove Area -- Molecular Phylogenetic and Population Genetic Structuring of Macrodon sp., a Coastal and Estuarine Fish of the Western Atlantic Ocean -- Fisheries and Management -- Ecology and Fishery of Mangrove Crabs -- The Brachyuran Crab Community of the Caeté Estuary, North Brazil: Species Richness, Zonation and Abundance -- Feeding Ecology and Ecological Role of North Brazilian Mangrove Crabs -- Comparative Population Dynamics and Life Histories of North Brazilian Mangrove Crabs, Genera Uca and Ucides (Ocypodoidea) -- Artisanal Fishery of the Mangrove Crab Ucides cordatus (Ucididae) and First Steps Toward a Successful Co-Management in Bragança, North Brazil -- Simulating Ucides cordatus Population Recovery on Fished Grounds -- Mangroves and People -- Mangroves and People: A Social-Ecological System -- Data Synthesis and Assessment Tools -- The Mangrove Information System MAIS: Managing and Integrating Interdisciplinary Research Data -- Coastal Zone Management Tool: A GIS-Based Vulnerability Assessment to Natural Hazards -- Closing Remarks -- Epilog.