In the front line
Subtitle: shoreline protection and other ecosystem services from mangroves and coral reefs
By: UNEP, WCMC, ICRAN, IUCN
Contributors: UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre; International Coral Reef Action Network; IUCN--The World Conservation Union
Series: UNEP-WCMC biodiversity series -- no. 24
Publisher: UNEPA World Conservation Monitoring Centre
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Cambridge, UK
Language: eng
Number of pages: 33
Subjects: Coral reefs and islands -- Environmental aspects
Other titles: Shoreline protection and other ecosystem services from mangroves and coral reefs
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 31-33)

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Table of contents: value: Global status of reefs and mangroves; value: Value of ecosystem services; value: Regulating services: shoreline protection; value: Other ecosystem services; value: What happens when ecosystem services are lost?; value: Natural recovery or rehabilitation and restoration?; value: Mangroves and coral reefs on tropical coastlines of the future