Mangroves of Western South Atlantic (Tropical and Subtropical WSAOBIS, BRAZIL)
Entry ID:
Mangroves_WSAOBIS
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Summary
Abstract:
'Despite their strategic importance, mangroves are under threat worldwide. They are sacrificed for salt pans, aquaculture ponds, housing developments, roads, port facilities, hotels, golf courses, and farms. And they die from a thousand indirect cuts: oil spills, chemical pollution, sediment overload, and disruption of their sensitive water and salinity balance. Calls for mangrove conservation ... gained a brief but significant hearing following the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. Where mangrove forests were intact, they served as natural breakwaters, dissipating the energy of the waves, mitigating property damage, perhaps saving lives. Post-tsunami, the logic of allowing a country's mangrove "bioshields" to be bulldozed looked not just flawed but reprehensible. … Mangrove forests are the supermarkets, lumberyards, fuel depots, and pharmacies of the coastal poor. …' (Warne & Laman, 2007).
WSA OBIS has identified that for most of its covering area there is still a great lack of ready assessable online datasets with mangrove forests or biotopes available. For most potential users of this information the indication to be a mangrove dataset is by the occurrence of the large and characteristic trees species – Rhizophora mangle, Rhizophora harrisonii, Avicennia schaueriana, Avicennia germinans and Laguncularia racemosa (FAO 153, 2007). The datasets have been arbitrarily divided following the 4 main large political regions of Brazil and also facing the Atlantic Ocean: North (Amapa and Para States), Northeast (Maranhao, Piaui, Ceara, Rio Grande do Norte, Paraiba, Pernambuco, Alagoas, Sergipe and Bahia States), Southeast (Espirito Santos, Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo States) and South (Parana and Santa Catarina States) (Obs.: in Rio Grande do Sul State there are no mangroves).
- Warne, K & T. Laman 2007. Mangroves: Forests of Tides. Retrieved 2010/01/13 from National Geographic [online], http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2007/02/mangroves/warne-text/1
- FAO 153 2007. The world's mangroves 1980-2005. Food and Agriculture Organization of The United Nations. FAO Forestry Paper 153. 78 p.. Retrieved 2010/01/13 from ftp://ftp.fao.org/docrep/fao/010/i0139e/i0139e00.pdf 
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Geographic Coverage
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Spatial coordinates
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N: -0.4
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S: -28.5
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E: -36.51
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W: -48.02
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Min Depth:
0 M
Max Depth:
10 M
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Data Set Citation
Dataset Originator/Creator:
Fabio Lang da Silveira and Rubens M. Lopes
Dataset Title:
Mangroves of Western South Atlantic
Dataset Release Date:
24 December 2009
Dataset Release Place:
Sao Paulo City
Version:
1.0
Temporal Coverage
Start Date:
1954-06-01
Stop Date:
2004-08-31
Data Resolution
Latitude Resolution:
100 m
Longitude Resolution:
100 m
Quality
Reference collection of organisms available at different research institutions in Brazil. Taxonomy checked in ITIS, CoL and WoRMS.
Access Constraints
None.
Use Constraints
Acknowledge the use of specific records from contributing databases in the form appearing in the 'Citation' field thereof (if any); and acknowledge the use of the OBIS facility.
For information purposes, email to obissupport@marine.rutgers.edu the full citation of any publication made (printed or electronic) that cites OBIS or any constituent part.
Recognize the limitations of data in OBIS.
Data Set Progress
IN WORK
Personnel
Role:
TECHNICAL CONTACT
Phone:
916-653-5656
Fax:
916-653-9560
Email:
michael.byrne at resources.ca.gov
Contact Address:
California Resources Agency
1416 9th Steet, Suite 1311
City:
Sacramento
Province or State:
CA
Postal Code:
95814
Country:
USA
Publications/References
Salmonid Stream Surveys, Flosi and Reynolds California Salmonid Habitat
Inventory, California Department of Fish and Game, 1994
Teal Hydro - Dfghost:/tsb/dfgbase/hydro/hydro.txt
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Creation and Review Dates
DIF Creation Date:
2003-08-29
Last DIF Revision Date:
2012-12-21
Future DIF Review Date:
2004-08-29
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