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- Title
Marvelling at the mega mangrove.
- Authors
Maxwell, Gordon
- Abstract
The article discusses how granting the mangrove tree A. marina the World Heritage status could help highlight the importance of other mangroves around the world. Avicennia marina is the world's most biogeographically widespread mangrove tree, with a distribution that includes South Africa, the Red Sea, Southeast, South and East Asia, Australia and some Pacific Islands. It adds that age is challenging to estimate in Avicennia, as convenient annual wood rings are not formed. INSET: COASTAL PROTECTION..
- Subjects
MANGROVE plants; MANGROVE ecology; ECOSYSTEMS; AVICENNIA; TREE-rings
- Publication
Biologist, 2019, Vol 66, Issue 1, p22
- ISSN
0006-3347
- Publication type
Article