Book ID: 91745
Beentje, Henk and Solamao Bandeira
Field Guide to the Mangrove Trees of Africa and Madagascar, with maps by Justin Moat. 2007. illus. 91 p. gr8vo. Paper bd.
Under threat from rising sea levels, pollution and urbanisation, themangrove swamps of the African coasts are still largely uncharted.Concentrating on the true mangrove trees, trees that have some specificadaptation to their ecological conditions, this in an identificationand geographic guide of all species found along the African andMadagascan coastlines. An essential feature of the book is the verydetailed distribution maps.