ISSN:
1572-977X
Keywords:
mangroves
;
Saloum estuary
;
bare salt-flats tannes
;
drought
;
anthropogenic factors
;
breach of Sangomar
;
mechanical disturbances
Source:
Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
Topics:
Biology
Notes:
Abstract The water, soil and vegetation characteristics are presented of themangroves of the Saloum River estuary, Senegal, in 1995 and 1996. Themangroves have changed markedly due to decreasing rainfall and increasingevaporation rates, particularly in the 1980s, as well as new oceanographicconditions resulting from the breaching of a protective sand dune. Thehealth of the remaining mangrove communities depends on the localhydrological and hydrodynamic conditions, the microtopography, the humanexploitation of the forest and the clay-sand composition of the soils.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1009900724172
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