Organic Matter and Mangrove Productivity

摘要: Mangrove forests function as a link between marine and terrestrial ecosystems; are important for the stability maintenance of various adjoining ecosystems such seagrass, coral reef, other provide habitats juvenile crustaceans fish. Mangroves also contribute significant quantities organic matter (OM) via litter fall that can be transported offshore (Odum Heald, 1972; Alongi, 1990). Depending upon geomorphology basin tidal amplitudes, mangrove stands receive nutrients OM from runoff, estuarine outflows (Boto Bunt, 1981; 1990), inputs water column production by phyto-plankton -benthos (Bouillon et al., 2004). As result, considered sites intensive biogeochemical processes with potentially impacting global element cycles (Dittmar 2006; Bouillon 2008).