澳大利亚的红树林

Mangroves in Australia

澳大利亚是一个大的岛国，海岸线长3万km。澳大利亚红树林生态系统（图1）覆盖20％的海岸线，红树林总面积约11500km^2，它们向南延伸至维多利亚州的科列澳地区（南纬38°55′），但在澳大利亚北部的热带海岸分布的广度和多样性最大。

Australia is a large island continent with over 30,000 km of coastline. Australian mangrove ecosystems （Fig. 1） occupy about 20 per cent of the coastline, and have a total area of about 11,500 km^2 （Galloway 1982）. They extend as far south as Corner Inlet in Victoria （38°55′S）, but reach their greatest extent and diversity on the tropical coasts of northern Australia. In Australia, mangrove forests occupy approximately 11,600 sq km of coastal foreshore and estuary areas.