More than marine: revealing the critical importance of mangrove ecosystems for terrestrial vertebrates

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 221-230

  Rog, Stefanie M ^a   Clarke, Rohan H ^a   Cook, Carly N ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

biodiversity patterns; coastal forest; ecosystem function; lagoon; swamp; transboundary

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BIODIVERSITY; COASTAL LAGOON; COASTAL ZONE; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; HABITAT MANAGEMENT; HOLISTIC APPROACH; MANGROVE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; SWAMP FOREST; VERTEBRATE;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; REPTILIA; RHIZOPHORACEAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 85006018024     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: 14724642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ddi.12514     Document Type: Article

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