About the site
This site was produced as a "Print To Web" project by Ria Tan. She worked in collaboration with Mr N. Sivasothi (Raffles Museum of Biodiversity Research, Department of Biological Sciences, the National University of Singapore), and Mrs Anne Dhanaraj (Singapore Science Centre ). The domain name and server is provided by the National University of Singapore via the Centre for Information Technology and Applications, Science Faculty, NUS). The site was launched at the Singapore Science Centre on 17th April 2001, during the launch of the guidebooks for 2001.

The guidebooks
The guidebooks are numbers 37 and 38 in the BP-SSC series of field guides. To view the entire series of titles.

The authors of the guidebooks
Part I: The Ecosystem and plant diversity
T. Morgany, N. Sivasothi, Dennis H. Murphy, Peter K. L. Ng, B. C. Soong, Hugh T. W. Tan & T. K. Tan (Vol.. I).
Chapter credits:
Introduction - H.T.W. Tan, P.K.L. Ng and N. Sivasothi
Mangrove Forests in Singapore - N. Sivasothi and H. T. W. Tan
The Ecosystem - N. Sivasothi, H. T. W. Tan and D. H. Murphy.
Areas to visit - H. T. W. Tan and N. Sivasothi
Economic value - H.T.W. Tan and P.K.L. Ng
Conservation in Singapore - N. Sivasothi and H.T.W. Tan
Fungi - T. K. Tan
Algae; Plants - H. T. W. Tan, B. C. Soong and T. Morgany

Part II: Animal Diversity
Kelvin K. P. Lim, Dennis H. Murphy, N. Sivasothi, Peter K. L. Ng, K. S. Tan (Vol. II)

Acknowledging the source of information
When writing an essay or doing a school project, you will have to gather information from a wide variety of sources. The various sources of information are acknowledged in a section called "bibliography", "references" or "literature cited". The information listed about each source should be of sufficient detail for someone else to find the exact source. Hence the citation should include the names of authors or editors, the year of publication, the title of the book, the publisher and city, and the number of pages.

Thus the mangrove guidebooks may be cited as:

• Ng, P.K.L. & N. Sivasothi (eds.), 1999. A guide to the mangroves of Singapore I: The Ecosystem and plant diversity. Singapore Science Centre, 160p.
• Ng, P.K.L. & N. Sivasothi (eds.), 1999. A guide to the mangroves of Singapore II: Animal diversity. Singapore Science Centre, 168p.

ISBN Numbers
These are the useful unique numbers that bookstores use when searching or ordering books. You can try using these numbers when searching webpages of online bookstores. They can prove more accurate results than using book titles.

• A guide to the mangroves of Singapore I. ISBN 9810413076
• A guide to the mangroves of Singapore II. ISBN 9810413084