Assessment of regional and local biodiversity in tropical and subtropical coastal habitats in the East African Marine Ecoregion

Biodiversity and Conservation

Volumn 20, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 2075-2109

  Barnes, Natalie ^a   Bamber, Roger N ^a   Bennell, Graham ^a   Cornelius, Nils ^a   Glassom, David ^e,f   Henderson, Sophie Conroy Dalton ^a   Jiddawi, Narriman ^b   Lee, Christine N W ^a   Macia, Adriano ^c   Msangameno, Daudi J ^b   Paula, J ^d   Yahya, Saleh ^b   Ferrero, Timothy J ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DAR ES SALAAM   (Tanzania)

^c EDUARDO MONDLANE UNIVERSITY   (Mozambique)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^e OCEANOGRAPHIC RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (South Africa)

^f UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Beach; Benthos; East African Marine Ecoregion (EAME); Intertidal; Mangrove; Meiofauna; Republic of Mozambique; Republic of South Africa; Sand; Seagrass; United Republic of Tanzania

Indexed keywords

BEACH; BENTHOS; BIODIVERSITY; COASTAL ZONE; DIVERSITY INDEX; ECOREGION; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; GRANULOMETRY; HABITAT CONSERVATION; HABITAT TYPE; INTERTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; MANGROVE; MARINE PARK; MEIOFAUNA; SAND; SEAGRASS; SUBTROPICAL REGION; TROPICAL REGION;

MOZAMBIQUE; SOUTH AFRICA; TANZANIA;

RHIZOPHORACEAE;

EID: 79960979674     PISSN: 09603115     EISSN: 15729710     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10531-011-0076-2     Document Type: Article

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