{"title":"MARINE PROTECTED AREAS","authors":"P. Laxmilatha, T. Sruthy, M. Varsha","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv1jk0jtt.30","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"India has a coastline of 8,118 km, with an exclusive economic \nzone (EEZ) of 2.02 million sq km and a continental shelf area of \n372,424 km², spread across 9 maritime States and seven Union \nTerritories, including the islands of Andaman and Nicobar, \nand Lakshadweep. India represents 2.5 percent of the world’s \nlandmass and supports a population of over one billion people. \nIndia is also one of 17 mega-biodiverse countries in the world, \nwith 7.8% of the recorded species of the world, including \n45,500 recorded species of plants and 91,000 recorded \nspecies of animals. The marine ecosystem is extremely diverse, \nattributed to the geomorphologic and climatic variations \nalong the coast. The coastal and marine habitat includes near \nshore, gulf waters, creeks, tidal flats, mud flats, coastal dunes, \nmangroves, marshes, wetlands, seaweed and sea grass beds, \ndeltaic plains, estuaries, lagoons and coral reefs.","PeriodicalId":440477,"journal":{"name":"The Marine World","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2021-06-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"4","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"The Marine World","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1jk0jtt.30","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
India has a coastline of 8,118 km, with an exclusive economic
zone (EEZ) of 2.02 million sq km and a continental shelf area of
372,424 km², spread across 9 maritime States and seven Union
Territories, including the islands of Andaman and Nicobar,
and Lakshadweep. India represents 2.5 percent of the world’s
landmass and supports a population of over one billion people.
India is also one of 17 mega-biodiverse countries in the world,
with 7.8% of the recorded species of the world, including
45,500 recorded species of plants and 91,000 recorded
species of animals. The marine ecosystem is extremely diverse,
attributed to the geomorphologic and climatic variations
along the coast. The coastal and marine habitat includes near
shore, gulf waters, creeks, tidal flats, mud flats, coastal dunes,
mangroves, marshes, wetlands, seaweed and sea grass beds,
deltaic plains, estuaries, lagoons and coral reefs.
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