displaced coastal fauna, including: insects, fish, crustaceans, molluscs, birds, flying foxes, and other bats. In
northeastern Australia, river mouth mangrove islands are
the last refuge for flying fox colonies (Hall and Richards,
2000). In the same region, Torres Strait pigeons take refuge on the reefal mangrove island at Low Isles (Crome,
1975; Frank and Jell, 2006).
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Mangrove Islands, Figure 1 Expanding mangrove island on the coral reef of Low Isles, northeastern Australia, in 2008 – home to
threatened Torres Strait Pigeons.
Mangrove Islands, Figure 2 Mangrove islands double in area over the last three decades in the river mouth of the Fitzroy River,
northeastern Australia, in 2004.
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