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Mangroves of the Darwin Region - Native Point to Adelaide River, Northern Territory, 1996-2016

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Title

Mangroves of the Darwin Region - Native Point to Adelaide River, Northern Territory, 1996-2016

Creator

Brocklehurst, P; Edmeades, B; Munns, P; Northern Territory. Department of Environment and Natural Resources. Rangelands Division

Editor

Hill, J.V.

Collection

E-Publications; E-Books; PublicationNT; DENR Technical Report 3/2017

Date

2019-08-01

Location

Darwin

Description

This report describes the mangrove communities for the approximately 92,000 ha of mangroves and salt flats that line the foreshores from the mouth of the Finniss River to and including the Adelaide River. The project is a compilation, standardisation and refinement of previous mangrove mapping of Darwin Harbour (Brocklehurst & Edmeades 1996a) and Bynoe Harbour (Brocklehurst & Edmeades 2003) and including new areas of mapping Shoal Bay, Gunn Point and the Adelaide River floodplain.

Map scale

1:10,000

Notes

Made available via the Publications (Legal Deposit) Act 2004 (NT)

Table of contents

1. Introduction; 2. Methods; 3. Community summary tables; 4. Community descriptions; 5. Temporal context; 6. Estimate of Total Tree Biomass: Darwin Region Mangroves; 7. Estimate of Total Tree Biomass: NT Coastline; 8. Relationship between Biomass and Stand Basal Area; 9. Bibliography; 10. Appendix 1 Mangrove Zonation.

Language

English

Subject

Mangroves; vegetation mapping; Mangrove community mapping; map units

Publisher name

Northern Territory Government

Place of publication

Palmerston

Series

DENR Technical Report 3/2017

Format

x 76 pages ; colour illustrations and maps ; 30 cm

File type

application/pdf

ISBN

9781743501887

Use

Attribution International 4.0 (CC BY 4.0)

Copyright owner

Northern Territory Government

License

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Related links

http://www.ntlis.nt.gov.au/metadata/export_data?type=html&metadata_id=864DE72434F89702E050CD9B214434C4

Parent handle

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/754064

Citation address

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/754064

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https://hdl.handle.net/10070/799568