The global conservation status of mangroves

Ambio

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 328-334

  Farnsworth, Elizabeth J ^a   Ellison, Aaron M ^b  

^a TNC Connecticut Chapter   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

COASTAL CONSERVATION; COASTAL ENVIRONMENT; CONSERVATION STATUS; DEFORESTATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; HABITAT PROTECTION; HABITAT RESTORATION; MANGROVE CONSERVATION; MANGROVE FOREST; MANGROVE SWAMP; MANGROVE SWAMPS; RESOURCE CONSERVATION;

RHIZOPHORACEAE;

EID: 0030882502     PISSN: 00447447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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63. Acknowledgements. We thank the many people and organizations who kindly hosted us, showed us mangrove sites and shared extensive knowledge and unpublished data. Special thanks to William Alverson, Jill Belsky, Katherine Ewel, and Carl Folke and anonymous reviewers for very helpful comments on the manuscript. Travel, writing and analyses for this study were funded in part by the National Science Foundation (grants BSR 91-07195 and DEB 92-53743), Mount Holyoke College, NSF Graduate Research Training Grant GER 95-54522, the Explorer's Club Exploration Fund, and a Harvard University Merit Fellowship.
64. First submitted 9 Januay 1996. Accepted for publication after revision 19 June, 1996.