Sensitivity of Mangrove Ecosystem to Changing Climate

• Main Author: Mitra, Abhijit. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: New Delhi : Springer India : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Geology.; Ecology.; Plant Ecology.; Botany.; Life Sciences.; Plant Sciences.; Coastal Sciences.; Earth System Sciences.; Environmental Science and Engineering.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-1509-7

Mangroves are basically salt tolerant forest ecosystems found mainly in tropical and sub-tropical inter-tidal regions. Till about 1960s, mangroves were largely viewed as economically unproductive areas and were therefore destroyed for reclaiming land for various economic and commercial activities....

Table of Contents:

• Climate change: A threat of the era
• Mangroves: A unique gift of nature
• How mangroves resist natural disaster?
• Impact of climate change on mangroves
• Climate change and plankton spectrum of mangrove ecosystem
• Climate change and its impact on brackish water fish and fishery
• Climate change and livelihood: Are we approaching towards an inevitable change?. �.