Assessment of Cyclone Lehar's impact on seagrass meadows in Ross and Smith Islands, North Andaman

Natural Hazards

Volumn 72, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 1253-1258

  Sachithanandam, V ^a   Mageswaran, T ^a   Sridhar, R ^a   Purvaja, R ^a   Ramesh, R ^a  

^a ANNA UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Andaman and Nicobar Island; Cyclone Lehar; Cyclonic storms; Seagrass beds

Indexed keywords

COASTAL ZONE; COMMUNITY RESPONSE; CYCLONE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; REEDBED; SEAGRASS MEADOW; STORM DAMAGE;

ANDAMANS AND NICOBARS; INDIA;

HALODULE; HALODULE UNINERVIS; HALOPHILA OVALIS; THALASSIA;

EID: 84899941810     PISSN: 0921030X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11069-014-1040-8     Document Type: Article

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