Guadeloupe consists of two islands, which are joined together by a mangrove swamp. There is a large area of mangrove containing the following four species, Rhizophora sp., Avicennia sp., Laguncularia sp., and Conocarpus sp.. Virgin stands are dense and reach 21 m in height. Mangroves occur in general on the seaward side of swamps, with freshwater Pterocarpus swamp on the landward side.
Beard, J. S. 1949. The natural vegetation of the Windward and Leeward Islands. Oxford Forestry Memoirs 21. Clarendon Press, London. 192 pp.
Year |
Area |
Source |
Trend |
Methodology/Comments |
1976 |
8 900 |
Office National des forêts, Direction des services pour la Guadeloupe. 1976. Vers un aménagement de la forêt soumise de Guadeloupe. |
Estimation for 1976. Secondary reference, no primary source provided. | |
1980 |
3 983 |
Spalding, M.D., Blasco, F. and Field, C.D., eds. 1997. World Mangrove Atlas. The International Society for Mangrove Ecosystems, Okinawa, Japan. 178 pp. |
X |
Map analysis. Scale 1:150 000 |
1983 |
8 000 |
Saenger, P., Hegerl E.J. and J.D.S., Davie. 1983. Global status of mangrove ecosystems. Commission on Ecology Papers No.3. IUCN. Gland, Switzerland. 88 pp. |
Secondary reference, no primary source provided. The "Year" is the publication year. It probably refers to Office National des forêts, Direction des services pour la Guadeloupe. 1976. | |
1986 |
7 500 |
Davis, S.D., Droop, S.J.M., Gregerson, P., Henson, L., Leon, C.J., Lamlein Villa-Lobos, J., Synge, H. and Zantovska, J. 1986. Plants in danger: what do we know? IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK. 461 pp. |
Cited in: CEP. 1996. Status of Protected Area Systems in the Wider Caribbean Region. Technical Report No. 36 http://www.cep.unep.org/pubs/techreports/tr36en/countries/guadelou.html The "Year" is the publication year. | |
1986 |
3 000 |
FAO. 1986. Sintesis de siete seminarios nacionales en América Latina. Rollet, B (ed). FAO, Rome. 105 pp. |
X |
Secondary reference, no primary source provided. The "Year" is the publication year. |
1991 |
5 700 |
Jean Luc Toffart (Ecole Practique de Hautes Etudes, Paris, France), nd. |
Snedaker, S.C. 1991. Personal communication. Cited in: Fisher, P and Spalding, M.D. 1993. Protected areas with mangrove habitat. Draft Report World Conservation Centre, Cambridge, UK. 60 pp. The "Year" is the publication year. | |
1997 |
2 325 |
Chauvaud S. 1997. Cartographie par télédétection à haute résolution des biocénoses marines côtières de la Guadeloupe et de la Martinique. Estimation de la biomasse et de la production primaire des herbiers à Thalassia testudinum. Thèse de doctorat, Univ. Bretagne Occidentale, 242 pp. |
X |
Cited in: IFRECOR. 1998. L'état des récifs coralliens en France Outre-Mer. http://www.environnement.gouv.fr/ifrecor/domtom/gutdma.htm The "Year" is the publication year. |
