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An attempt to recover economic losses from decadal changes in two lagoon systems of Sri Lanka through a newly patented mangrove product Environment

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An attempt to recover economic losses from decadal changes in two lagoon syst...
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Mangroves are salt tolerant woody plants species found in inter-tidal area of lagoons, bays, and estuaries in tropical and subtropical coastlines. Mangrove substratum is inundated twice a day by high tides. These inter-tidal plant communities of different families show remarkable adaptations to survive in saline and water logged soils Sri Lanka, mangroves are distributed discontinuously along the shoreline and the extent of mangroves in Sri Lanka is about 15,000ha (which is about 0.23% of ...

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Sonneratia caseolaris , Mangrove , Coastal and Marine Sensitive habitat
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Coastal and Marine Sensitive Habitats
flora and/or fauna in natural environment. Examples: wildlife, vegetation, biological sciences, ecology, wilderness, sealife, wetlands, habitat
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JS 2
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English
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Jayatissa,L.P,Hettiarachi,S.S,Dahdouh,F.,Guebas.2006.An attempt to recover economic losses from decadal changes in two lagoon systems of Sri Lanka through a ...

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