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Floral survey of wet coastal and associated ecosystems of Maharashtra

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Title Floral survey of wet coastal and associated ecosystems of Maharashtra
 
Creator Gokhale, M. V.
Shaikh, S. S.
Chavan, N. S.
 
Subject Hangrove
Sand dune
Wet coastal ecosystems
Floral survey
Beach
 
Description 725-730
Maharashtra coast is 720 km long stretch interrupted with about 45 estuaries.
There is formation of different types of habitat on this coastline. Each one is
ecologically unique and inhabits some specific floral components. Present paper
reports occurrence of different plant species in the habitat like sandy beach,
sand dune, encroached mangrove land, areas along the mangroves and mangrove
swamps. Mangrove species are well documented and therefore excluded. There are
33 trees, 118 herbs, shrubs, climbers and 12 species with restricted
distribution on the coast of Maharashtra.
 
Date 2011-11-18T04:32:59Z
2011-11-18T04:32:59Z
2011-10
 
Type Article
 
Identifier 0975-1033 (Online); 0379-5136 (Print)
http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/13086
 
Language en_US
 
Rights CC Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 India
 
Publisher NISCAIR-CSIR, India
 
Source IJMS Vol.40(5) [October 2011]