Response and adaptability of mangrove habitats from the Indian subcontinent to changing climate

Ambio

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 328-334

  Jagtap, Tanaji G ^a   Nagle, Vinod L ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; ECOSYSTEM RESPONSE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HABITAT LOSS; MANGROVE; SEA LEVEL CHANGE;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; AVICENNIA; BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; GEOGRAPHY; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; INDIAN OCEAN; RHIZOPHORACEAE; SEA; WATER FLOW;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; AVICENNIA; BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; GEOGRAPHY; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; INDIAN OCEAN; OCEANS AND SEAS; RHIZOPHORACEAE; WATER MOVEMENTS;

ASIA; EURASIA; INDIA; SOUTH ASIA;

RHIZOPHORACEAE;

EID: 34547137877     PISSN: 00447447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1579/0044-7447(2007)36[328:RAAOMH]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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52. Acknowledgments: Author is grateful to Director, National Institute of Oceanography (NIO), Dona-Paula, Goa, for encouragement. This document forms contribution No. 3944 of NIO.
53. First submitted 19 September 2005. Accepted for publication 23 October 2006.