Mangroves of Karnataka importance and identification

Sulochanan, Bindu (2024) Mangroves of Karnataka importance and identification. In: Training Manual on "Know Your Marine Biodiversity and Environment (MarBiE 1)". CMFRI Training Manual Series (42). ICAR- Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute, Kochi, pp. 120-124.

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Abstract

Mangroves are vital coastal ecosystems that provide a variety of benefits to both people and environment. They are salt-tolerant and distributed along coastlines, lagoons, estuaries, rivers or deltas in over 120 tropical and subtropical nations and forms less than 1 percent of all tropical forest. In 2020 it was estimated that mangroves areal extent is 14.8 million ha (FAO, 2023). Mangrove coverage in the nations Indonesia, Brazil, Nigeria, Mexico and Australia account for 47 percent in the world (FAO, 2020).

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