Mangrove dynamics and management in North Brazil [electronic resource] / Ulrich Saint-Paul, Horacio Schneider, editors.

Mangrove ecosystems are being increasingly threatened by human activities. Their biotic productivity supplies food and other resources to the human populations that inhabit or make use of them. This volume highlights the results of a ten-year German / Brazilian research project, called MADAM, in one...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Springer)
Other Authors: Saint-Paul, Ulrich, Schneider, Horacio
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Heidelberg ; New York : Springer-Verlag, ©2010.
Series:Ecological studies ; v. 211.
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Table of Contents:
  • pt. 1. Introduction
  • pt. 2. Geography and biogeochemistry
  • pt. 3. Floristic and faunistic studies in mangroves
  • pt. 4. Dynamics in the mangrove system
  • pt. 5. Ecology and fishery of fin-fish in the mangrove system
  • pt. 6. Ecology and fishery of mangrove crabs
  • pt. 7. Mangroves and people
  • pt. 8. Data synthesis and assessment tools
  • pt. 9. Closing remarks.