This superb Madagascar itinerary will take you to some of the island's remotest corners, where rare wildlife and unique flora in two of Madagascar's most
threatened habitat types - spiny bush («spi...
Not exact matches
Under low prices, farmers anticipate clearing forest for cereal, corn, or khat crops, or large government - sponsored sun coffee farms,
threatening habitats of all
types.
Recovery is also highly variable and depends upon interactions of numerous factors, e.g., scale of the disturbance, availability of larvae from surviving corals, availability of substrate for coral settlement, and the
type of coral community that existed at the time of the disturbance.ref Changes in storm patterns also
threaten associated coral reef
habitats such as mangroves.
The system illustrates a classic example of reef
types through fringing, barrier and atoll, and the regions seven sites provide a significant
habitat for
threatened species.
Land use,
habitat fragmentation and intense human pressures will further limit natural adaptation responses, and fire - regime shifts may
threaten specific species and plant functional
types.