Updating global coastal wetland areas presented in Davidson and Finlayson (2018)
Nick C. Davidson
A B D and C. Max Finlayson B C
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- Author Affiliations
A Nick Davidson Environmental, Queens House, Ford Street, Wigmore, HR6 9UN, UK.
B Institute for Land, Water and Society, Charles Sturt University, Elizabeth Mitchell Drive, PO Box 789, Albury NSW 2640, Australia.
C IHE Delft, Institute for Water Education, Westvest 7, PO Box 3015, NL-2601 DA, Delft, Netherlands.
D Corresponding author. Email: arenaria.interpres@gmail.com
Marine and Freshwater Research 70(8) 1195-1200 https://doi.org/10.1071/MF19010
Submitted: 10 January 2019 Accepted: 15 January 2019 Published: 8 March 2019
Abstract
Global and regional areas and trends in area of unvegetated tidal flats, salt marshes, mangroves and seagrass beds are updated and corrected from those published in Davidson and Finlayson (2018). The global area of coastal wetlands is now estimated as a minimum of 1.42 × 106 km2, ~8.9–9.5% of an updated global wetland area of 15.0 × 106–16.0 × 106 km2.
Additional keywords : mangroves, salt marshes, seagrasses, tidal flats.
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