This article is - freely available Vulnerability to Climate
Change of Mangroves: Assessment from Cameroon, Central Africa
School of Geography and Environmental Studies, University of
Tasmania, Locked Bag 1376, Launceston 7250, Tasmania, Australia
Ministry of Environment and the Protection of Nature, MINEP, PB
320 Yaoundé, Cameroon * Author to whom correspondence should be
addressed. Received: 24 August 2012; in revised form: 28
September 2012 / Accepted: 31 October 2012 / Published: 6
November 2012 Abstract: Intertidal mangrove ecosystems are
sensitive to climate change impacts, particularly to associated
relative sea level rise. Human stressors and low tidal range add
to vulnerability, both characteristics of the Doula Estuary,
Cameroon. To investigate vulnerability, spatial techniques were
combined with ground surveys to map distributions of mangrove
zones, and compare with historical spatial records to quantify
change over the last few decades. Low technology techniques were
used to establish the tidal ran