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Table 3.5
Land-use/land cover in 1988 and 1998
Area
Coringa Reserve Forest
(ha)
Increase/decrease (%) Whole area (ha)
Increase/decrease (%)
Category
1988
1998
1988
1998
Mangrove
9,623
9,320
−
3.15
13,359
12,127
−
9.22
Degraded area
686
875
+27.55
1,309
1,292
1.31
−
Aquaculture
0.07
0.39
+457.14
669
4,669
+597.90
Fig. 3.12
Land use/land cover of Coringa in 1988 and 1998
grown in about 285 ha in the degraded area and
other land (Table
3.6
). This picture is not speci
Family: ACANTHACEAE
4.
c
to Coringa, but is also observed in several other
maritime states of India.
Acanthus ilicifolius
Linn.
Family: COMBRETACEAE
5.
Lumnitzera racemosa
Willd.
Family: EUPHORBIACEAE
6.
Excoecaria agallocha
Linn.
Annexure: Check List
of Coringa Mangroves
Family: MELIACEAE
7.
Xylocarpus mekongensis
Pierre.
Family: MYRSINACEAE
8.
Aegiceras corniculatum
(Linn.) Blanco.
Family: AVICENNIACEAE
1.
Family: RHIZOPHORACEAE
9.
Avicennia marina
(Forsk.) Vierh.
Rhizophora apiculata
.
2.
Avicennia ofcinalis
Linn.
10.
Rhizophora mucronata
Lamk.
3.
Avicennia alba
Blume.
11.
Bruguiera gymnorrhiza
(Linn.) Lamk.
