Mangroves in the Firing Line
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01 Apr 2008 - 18 Jan 2016
Just how resilient and protective are mangroves, particularly in the face of tsunamis and global climate change? The way these complex, hardy ecosystems react to major disturbances is the theme of a recent paper which concludes that mangroves offer limited protection to human populations from tsunamis of the magnitude of the Boxing Day 2004 event. The paper proposes that a more immediate threat to mangrove ecosystems comes from deforestation rather than climate change. Port Hurd on Bathurst Island (Tiwi Islands), north of Darwin. Photo: Lindsay Trott.
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