Effect of vegetation structure on potential gross primary productivity for mangrove ecosystem in Negombo estuary, Sri Lanka

Title: Effect of vegetation structure on potential gross primary productivity for m...
Abstract: The present study was carried out from May 2001 to August 2001 to investigate the diversity, distribution and environmental interactions of mangrove crabs in the Kadolkele mangrove ecosystem associated with the Negombo estuary in the west coast of Sri Lanka. The data on diversity and abundance of crabs, salinity, pH, organic carbon content, moisture and temperature of the soil, ambient air temperature and floral species of mangrove were collected from three 10 m x 50 m belt transects laid ...
Publication Date: Aug. 29, 2017, 4:50 a.m.
Keywords: Rhizophora mucronata , Mangrove , Coastal and Marine Sensitive habitat , Avicennia marina , Aegiceras corniculatum , Lumnitzera racemosa , Excoecaria agallocha
Category: Coastal and Marine Sensitive Habitats; flora and/or fauna in natural environment. Examples: wildlife, vegetation, biological sciences, ecology, wilderness, sealife, wetlands, habitat
Regions: M 5
Owner: prds1

Language: English
Supplemental Information: Perera, K. A. R. S., Amarasinghe, M. D. and Pahalawattaarachchi, V. (2010). Effect of vegetation structure on potential gross primary productivity for mang...

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