Long-term mangrove forest development in Sri Lanka: Early predictions evaluated against outcomes using VHR remote sensing and VHR ground-truth data

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 443, Issue , 2011, Pages 51-63

  Satyanarayana, Behara ^a,b,c   Koedam, Nico ^b   De Smet, Kriki ^b   Di Nitto, Diana ^a,b   Bauwens, Maite ^b   Jayatissa, Loku Pulukkuttige ^d   Cannicci, Stefano ^e   Dahdouh Guebas, Farid ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^b VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITI MALAYSIA TERENGGANU   (Malaysia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF RUHUNA   (Sri Lanka)

^e UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Decadal changes; Galle Unawatuna; Mangrove distribution; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BIODIVERSITY; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DATA SET; DECADAL VARIATION; DOMINANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; IKONOS; MANGROVE; PREDICTION; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; TURNOVER;

SRI LANKA;

BRUGUIERA; BRUGUIERA GYMNORHIZA; BRUGUIERA SEXANGULA; EXCOECARIA AGALLOCHA; RHIZOPHORA APICULATA; RHIZOPHORACEAE;

EID: 84555219762     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps09397     Document Type: Article

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