Status of the undisturbed mangroves at Brunei Bay, East Malaysia: A preliminary assessment based on remote sensing and ground-truth observations

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Volumn 2018, Issue 2, 2018, Pages

  Satyanarayana, Behara ^a,b   Muslim, Aidy M ^a   Horsali, Nurul Amira Izzaty ^a   Zauki, Nurul Ashikin Mat ^a   Otero, Viviana ^b   Nadzri, Muhammad Izuan ^a   Ibrahim, Sulong ^a   Husain, Mohd Lokman ^a   Dahdouh Guebas, Farid ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITI MALAYSIA TERENGGANU   (Malaysia)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^c VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

ALOS data; Diameter class distribution; PCQM; South China Sea; Species level mapping

Indexed keywords

FRESH WATER;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BRUNEI DARUSSALAM; DATA ANALYSIS; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; MALAYSIA; MANGROVE; NONHUMAN; PLANT APICAL DOMINANCE; RELATIVE DENSITY; REMOTE SENSING; SOIL POLLUTION; SPECIES COMPOSITION; VEGETATION; WATER POLLUTION;

EID: 85042388207     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21678359     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7717/peerj.4397     Document Type: Article

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