Mangroves at Their Limits: Detection and Area Estimation of Mangroves along the Sahara Desert Coast
The northernmost and most arid mangrove ecosystem of West Africa is found in Mauritania, in the Parc National du Banc d’Arguin (PNBA). The existing global and regional maps of Mauritania’s mangroves have little detail, and available estimates of the mangrove area differ among studies. We assessed th...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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MDPI AG
2016-06-01
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Series: | Remote Sensing |
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Online Access: | http://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/8/6/512 |