MANGROVE COVER CHANGES ALONG THE COAST OF DUMAI CITY RIAU PROVINCE - INDONESIA

Primasari, Nova (2009) MANGROVE COVER CHANGES ALONG THE COAST OF DUMAI CITY RIAU PROVINCE - INDONESIA. Masters thesis, Program Pascasarjana Unand.

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Abstract

Mangroves are unique and valuable coastal ecosystem that occgr throughout the tropics and subtropics occuplng around 1g0,000 square kilometers around the world and cover 60 to 70 percent of the coastline of the tropical region. Mangroves forest is estimated to be 3.98 per cent of all forest types in Indonesia and found mostly in the eastern coast of Sumatra, coastline of the Borneo and the largest part in Papua. In the eastem side of Sumatra Island, Riau Province, mangrove forest is distributed along the coast line and in islands such as; Rupat, Dumai, Bengkalis, Merbau, Rangsang, Kundur, Batam and Bintan. The pressures of increasing population, and the resulting expansion of agriculture and industrial and urban development, have destroyed a significant proportion of the mangrove forest in Dumai cify. Reliable and timely information is therefore required in order to monitor and manage the remaining mangrove resources.

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