Ecological health status of the Lagos wetland ecosystems: Implications for coastal risk reduction

2016 ◽  
Vol 183 ◽  
pp. 73-81 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julius I. Agboola ◽  
Prince E. Ndimele ◽  
Shakirudeen Odunuga ◽  
Adeniran Akanni ◽  
Bosede Kosemani ◽  
...  
2016 ◽  
Vol 183 ◽  
pp. 340-348
Author(s):  
Julius I. Agboola ◽  
Prince E. Ndimele ◽  
Shakirudeen Odunuga ◽  
Adeniran Akanni ◽  
Bosede Kosemani ◽  
...  

2012 ◽  
Vol 35 (4) ◽  
pp. 279-289
Author(s):  
Frederick A. Armah ◽  
Benjamin Ason ◽  
Isaac Luginaah ◽  
Paul K. Essandoh

2022 ◽  
pp. 150-170
Author(s):  
Moumit Roy Goswami ◽  
Aniruddha Mukhopadhyay

Wetland ecosystems support rich and unique biodiversity. Biodiversity of a given ecosystem in general and wetlands in particular provide important insights to the ecological health of an area. The Ramsar Convention 1971 identified nine criteria for identifying wetlands of international importance. Out of the nine criteria, eight are linked to biodiversity of which three are based on sites of international importance for conserving biological diversity, two are specific for water birds, two are specific for fish, and one criterion for other taxa. Hence, determination of biodiversity of wetlands is of utmost importance. In order to understand that birds, fishes, amphibians, odonates, mammals, and aquatic plants were particularly selected as indicators of wetland biodiversity, the chapter discusses the different methodologies about determination of each of these taxa under different criteria as mentioned above. These methodologies will help various stakeholders in appropriate determination of biodiversity of wetlands of a particular area.


2010 ◽  
Vol 411 ◽  
pp. 215-230 ◽  
Author(s):  
GD Stentiford ◽  
JP Bignell ◽  
BP Lyons ◽  
JE Thain ◽  
SW Feist

2019 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 174 ◽  
Author(s):  
Badreyah Almarshed ◽  
Jens Figlus ◽  
Jon Miller ◽  
Henk Jan Verhagen

2018 ◽  
Vol 134 ◽  
pp. 81-92 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lydia Cumiskey ◽  
Sally Priest ◽  
Nikolay Valchev ◽  
Christophe Viavattene ◽  
Susana Costas ◽  
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2019 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessica M. Silver ◽  
Katie K. Arkema ◽  
Robert M. Griffin ◽  
Brett Lashley ◽  
Michele Lemay ◽  
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Author(s):  
S. W. Wang ◽  
H. C. He ◽  
B. L. Fu ◽  
H. L. Sun

Abstract. The physiological structure parameter of vegetation is an important index to measure the ecological health status of mangroves, and it is of great value to measure the ecological health status. Taking Shankou Mangrove Nature Reserve of Guangxi as the study area, The Chlorophyll-A/B(CAB),Leaf Area Index (LAI),Fractional Vegetation Cover (FVC) and Fraction of absorbed photo synthetically active radiation (FAPAR) were calculated by using Sentinel-2 image data to calculate the chlorophyll content of mangrove vegetation in the study area. The BP neural network algorithm is used to verify the accuracy difference between the inversion results and the corresponding products of MODIS, and the dynamic changes of physiological structure parameters of vegetation in mangroves are further studied. Results showed that: (1)The correlation coefficients between LAI, CAB, FAPAR, FVC and MODIS products were higher than 0.71 in 95% confidence interval in mangrove years, it is proved that Sentinel-2A/B multispectral image inversion of mangrove physiological structure parameters has high accuracy and quality. (2)The physiological structure parameters of mangroves fluctuated during the year. In February, the lowest values of LAI, CAB, FAPAR and FVC were 0.30, 0.08, 0.08 and 0.13, respectively. The highest values were 0.69 in October, 0.29 in December, 0.27 in August, 0.40 in April, 0.24 and 0.24 in September, and 0.27 and 0.33 in LAI in November, respectively, with the highest LAI in October, 0.29 in December, 0.27 in August, 0.40 in April, 0.24 and 0.24 in September, and 0.27 and 0.33 in November. The results provide the basis for the monitoring of mangrove vegetation change and provide a reference for ecological assessment and protection.


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