Lightning gaps in mangrove forests as indicators to identify, monitor and predict changes in the coastal zones • back to student info • back to people Aldrie Amir*, Norm Duke* * Marine Botany, Centre for Marine Studies, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia QLD 4072 commenced: January 2006 a.aldrie@cms.uq.edu.au

Research objectives • Identification of the cause of small gap creation in mangrove forests. • Determination of the frequency and area of small gaps in more or less decadal increments since the 1940s. • Comparison of ecological data with meteorological data on lightning strike activity.