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Mapping Mangrove Extent and Change: A Globally Applicable Approach [PDF]

open access: yes
This study demonstrates a globally applicable method for monitoring mangrove forest extent at high spatial resolution. A 2010 mangrove baseline was classified for 16 study areas using a combination of ALOS PALSAR and Landsat composite imagery within a ...
Bunting, Peter   +5 more
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[Antimicrobial properties of extracts from Rhizophora mangle L].

open access: yesRevista cubana de medicina tropical, 1979
Aqueous and alcoholic extracts are obtained from the roots, leaves and stems of ruddy mangrove-tree (Rhizophora mangle L.), a very common plant in Cuban coasts and to which different curative properties are attributed in our popular medicine. The inhibitory activity of these extracts on the growth of different human pathogenic organisms, among which ...
N M, Rojas Hernández, O, Coto Pérez
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Examining the Density Gradient Along the Rhizophora mangle Propagule

open access: yesProceedings of the West Virginia Academy of Science
Mangroves grow in tropical regions around the globe, but these dense forests have been declining due to agriculture, industry, and climate change. Mangrove propagules are not seeds but the seedlings themselves that grow on the parent tree until they reach maturity and fall.
Marissa Mohn   +3 more
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Mangroves and Their Response to a Heavy Metal Polluted Wetland in the North Coast of Puerto Rico [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Peninsula La Esperanza is part of the San Juan Bay Estuary and located in the north coast of Puerto Rico. Mangroves are the predominant type of vegetation; that can exhibit diverse external and internal mechanisms allowing them to tolerate and to act as ...
Jiménez-Collazo, J. (Johannys)   +3 more
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Distribucion arborea de los gastropodos cerithidea montagnei (mollusca: potamidae) y littorina Spp. (Mollusca: Littorinidae) en el manglar de Mata de Limón, Costa Rica

open access: yesUniciencia, 1984
En el manglar de Mata de Limón, Puntarenas, Costa Rica, se estudió la distribución y preferencia por el susbtrato arbóreo de gastrópodos C. montagnei y Littorina spp.
Edgar Suárez B, Alvaro Castaing R
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Diversidad y abundancia de macroinvertebrados en manglares naturales y restaurados del Noroeste de Ecuador. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Mangroves are key ecosystems that serve many ecological functions and provide multiple goods and services to humans. However, mangroves have been reduced drastically due to habitat destruction, pollution and overfishing.
Morales Núñez, Juan de Dios
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COLONIZACIÓN DE MOLUSCOS Y CRUSTÁCEOS EN RAÍCES DE MANGLE ROJO EN UNA LAGUNA COSTERA DE LA PUNTA NORTE DEL GOLFO DE MORROSQUILLO

open access: yesGestión y Ambiente, 2010
Se evaluaron la colonización y sucesión de moluscos y crustáceos en un sustrato de raíces de mangle en tres estaciones en la ciénaga La Boquilla, Punta San Bernardo en la parte norte del Golfo de Morrosquillo.
PRÜSMANN JOHANNA, PALACIO JAIME
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Flora do Rio de Janeiro: Rhizophoraceae

open access: yesRodriguésia
Resumo O presente estudo tem como objetivo contribuir para o conhecimento das espécies de Rizophoraceae ocorrentes no estado do Rio de Janeiro. O trabalho tem por base a análise morfológica de materiais depositados em herbários e coletas de campo, além ...
Isabelle Gomes Cardoso Machado da Costa   +2 more
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Mangal communities of the "Salgado Paraense": Ecological heterogeneity along the Bragança peninsula assessed through soil and leaf analyses

open access: yes, 2001
Mangroves in the Bragança peninsula occur in a variety of environmental settings differing in tidal influence and fresh water run-off. The construction of a paved road running through the middle of the peninsula modified the transversal flow of water ...
Braga, C.   +9 more
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