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In today’s world of burgeoning human populations, few resources can be considered as unlimited. Few, if any, forest communities can be ignored from the standpoint of conservation. This is equally true of mangroves.
In several parts of eastern tropical Africa where the shores are mostly of upraised coral limestone, I have noticed the effect of mangrove in eating away this rock, but nowhere have I seen it so well as in the island of Aldabra ... which I surveyed in 1878.
W.J.L. Wharton (1883:76)
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Saenger, P. (2002). Conservation and Management. In: Mangrove Ecology, Silviculture and Conservation. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9962-7_9
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