Mangroves at Their Limits: Detection and Area Estimation of Mangroves along the Sahara Desert Coast

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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Main Authors: Viviana Otero, Katrien Quisthoudt, Nico Koedam, Farid Dahdouh-Guebas
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2016-06-01
Series:Remote Sensing
Subjects:
mangroves
arid ecosystems
latitudinal limits
remote sensing
area estimation
Cap Timiris
Mauritania
Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/8/6/512

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