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A world without mangroves? [1]

At a meeting of world mangrove experts held last year in Australia, it was unanimously agreed that we face the prospect of a world deprived of the services offered by mangrove ecosystems, perhaps within the next 100 years. Mangrove forests once covered more than 200,000 km2 of sheltered tropical and subtropical coastlines.

Publication Date: 
06/07/2007
N. C. Duke [2], J.-O. Meynecke [3], S. Dittmann & et al [4]
Science [5]
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Tags:
Ecosystems [6], Forests [7], Land Use [8], Mangroves [9], Deforestation [10], Carbon Sinks [11], Biodiversity [12]
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