Sentence examples for mangrove canopy from inspiring English sources
They rise toward the surface and their upturned eyes scan the sky, until at last they spy the mangrove canopy, and they start swimming home.
Figure 7 shows negative relationships between crab burrow density and mangrove canopy cover.
In Kenya, Sesarma guttatum (family Grapsidae) preferred shaded habitats and are most common in regions with an established mangrove canopy (Ruwa 1997).
Five treatments were established, including artificial shade cover, root simulated structure, mix (shade and structure) and control of the canopy gap (which had no mangrove vegetation), in addition to forest control under the mangrove canopy.
The persistence of litter-feeding sesarmid crabs prior to the re-establishment of a mangrove canopy is likely to depend on the availability of woody debris on the ground of the gaps, fuelling a mangrove detritus based food web, rather than one based on microphytobenthos and deposit-feeding ocypodids.
In this study, we develop a suite of methods to evaluate the combination of Landsat-8, ALOS PALSAR, and SRTM data for mapping spatial distribution of mangrove composition, canopy height, and aboveground biomass in the wide intertidal zones and coastal plains of Mimika district, Papua, Indonesia.
Closed canopy mangrove was highest at 1040 ± 104 MgC ha− 1, followed by open canopy mangrove (640 ± 131 MgC ha− 1) while aquaculture, salt pond and cleared mangrove had comparable C stocks (454 ± 32, 401 ± 9, 413 ± 25 MgC ha− 1, respectively) and coconut plantation had the least (42 ± 0.7 MgC ha− 1).
Mangrove species and canopy cover have significant impacts on crab burrow density.
SPSS software was used to analyze the mangrove species and canopy cover.
Two-factor ANOVA showed that mangrove species and canopy cover had significant impacts on crab burrow density (Table 2).
In order to restore mangroves scientifically and rationally, it is important to take the combined effects of mangrove stand age, canopy cover and other factors into account.
