Coastal mangrove forests mitigated tsunami
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...…based on initial post-impact surveys in southeastern India, the Andaman Islands, and Sri Lanka (Danielsen et al., 2005; Dahdouh-Guebas et al., 2005; Kathiresan and Rajendran, 2005; Chang et al., 2006) indicated that mangroves offered a significant defense against the full impact of the tsunami....
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...However, several reports based on initial post-impact surveys in southeastern India, the Andaman Islands, and Sri Lanka (Danielsen et al., 2005; Dahdouh-Guebas et al., 2005; Kathiresan and Rajendran, 2005; Chang et al., 2006) indicated that mangroves offered a significant defense against the full impact of the tsunami....
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...The conclusions of Kathiresan and Rajendran (2005) and Vermaat and Thanpanya (2006) that the presence of mangroves saved lives along the Tamil Nadu coast of southeast India are invalid however as inappropriate statistical tests were used (Vermaat and Thampanya, 2007)....
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...Reduced mangrove area and health will increase the threat to human safety and shoreline development from coastal hazards such as erosion, flooding, storm waves and surges, and tsunami, as most recently observed following the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami (Danielsen et al., 2005; Kathiresan and Rajendran, 2005; Dahdouh-Guebas et al., 2005a,b, 2006)....
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...…the threat to human safety and shoreline development from coastal hazards such as erosion, flooding, storm waves and surges, and tsunami, as most recently observed following the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami (Danielsen et al., 2005; Kathiresan and Rajendran, 2005; Dahdouh-Guebas et al., 2005a,b, 2006)....
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...…natural hazards, such as tsunami, which will not be affected by climate change, can also cause severe damage to mangroves and other coastal ecosystems (e.g., the 26 December 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami [Danielsen et al., 2005; Kathiresan and Rajendran, 2005; Dahdouh-Guebas et al., 2005a,b, 2006])....
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...In coastal southeastern India, villages located behind mangrove buffers were spared tsunami damage experienced by nearby exposed villages (Danielsen et al. 2005; Kathiresan and Rajendran 2005; Vermaat and Thampanya 2006; Olwig et al. 2007)....
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...…healthy mangrove forests suffered fewer losses and less damage to property than those areas in which mangroves had been degraded or converted to other land uses (Dahdouh-Guebas et al., 2005; Harakunarak and Aksornkoae, 2005; Kathiresan and Rajendran, 2005; UNEP, 2005; Wetlands International, 2005)....
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...that had dense and healthy mangrove forests suffered fewer losses and less damage to property than those areas in which mangroves had been degraded or converted to other land uses (Dahdouh-Guebas et al., 2005; Harakunarak and Aksornkoae, 2005; Kathiresan and Rajendran, 2005; UNEP, 2005; Wetlands International, 2005)....
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...This is due to the fact that the aerial stilt roots of the former are more tolerant than pneumatophores of the latter to long periods of submergence by flood water (Kathiresan and Bingham, 2001)....
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...The wave attenuation is because of the fact that the mangrove forests function as sinks for the suspended sediments (Woodroffe, 1992; Wolanski et al., 1992; Wolanski, 1995; Furukawa et al., 1997)....
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