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Aspects of productivity of mangroves
DRS at CSIR-National Institute of Oceanography
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Aspects of productivity of mangroves
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Wafar, S.
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| Description |
The term 'mangroves' refers to an assemblage of different flowering plants which can grow in saline brackish water areas like creeks, backwaters, estuaries and deltas. Mangrove forest cover in the tropical area is about 0.5 million km sup(2) and this sorts into two distinct geographical assemblages (1) Indo-Pacific region, comprising of South-east Pacific archipelago as far East as Samoa and (2) West Africa - American region comprising of Atlantic coast of tropical America and the Galapagos Islands. The total number of plants that exclusively occur in mangrove habitats is 60 including two genera of palms - Nyya and Phoenix.
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2009-05-05T04:36:26Z
2009-05-05T04:36:26Z 1994 |
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Book Chapter
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Conservation of mangrove forest genetic resources: A training manual, Ed. by: Deshmukh, S.V.; Balaji, V. 197-199p.
http://drs.nio.org/drs/handle/2264/2643 |
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en
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Copyright [1994]. All efforts have been made to respect the copyright to the best of our knowledge. Inadvertent omissions, if brought to our notice, stand for correction and withdrawal of document from this repository.
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M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation, Madras, India
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