Mangrove speciesClimate changeWater qualityLow and high salinityTree densityIntertidal zoneMangroves in the Ayeyarwaddy Coastal Delta Zone (ADCZ) of Myanmar are well known for their rich biodiversity and their enormous ecosystem services. However, as recently evident from the adverse impacts of Cyclone...
There are three different types of ecosystems: natural ecosystems, man-made ecosystems, and micro-ecosystems. This article describes the characteristics of an ecosystem, subcategories for each type of ecosystem, and examples with illustrations.
It is in South America and it's home to 10% of the world's plants and animals.There are other kinds of forests on the earth, such as the mangrove forests. Trees give us oxygen(氧气)! They help clean the air. Cutting down too many trees hurts the environment.( )59. What does the...
It is important to recognize this effect on mangrove populations. Such knowledge could inform efforts to protect and restore the forests, thus promoting the growth of these trees. That might look like added limitations on human activity nearby that could harm the forests. But people should be mor...
13. Mangrove Swamp Any form of shrubs or small trees growing in the coastal saline or brackish water makes up the mangrove swamp ecosystems. The plants and shrubs in the mangrove ecosystem are highly salt-tolerant and well adapted to the harsh coastal conditions such as the low oxygen condition...
You can identify these types of snappers by looking at their contrasting colors. ©John A. Anderson/Shutterstock.com From Massachusetts to Brazil, themangrove snapper fishswims its way into different coastal regions and estuaries with brackish water. Mangrove trees’ presence heavily influences the ...
Mangrove-forest classification by using deep learning algorithms has attracted increasing attention but remains challenging. The current studies on the transfer classification of mangrove communities between different regions and different sensors are especially still unclear. To fill the research gap, this ...
My favourite of all the Malaysian mammals is the proboscis monkey. These are confined to the island of Borneo only and they are endangered. I took this photo at theLabuk Bay Proboscis Monkey Sanctuarynear Sandakan where they emerge from their patch of mangrove forest at feeding time. I also...
The difference could be attributable to the study area in Ihli’s study being Uganda, where forest coverage is low, and the planted trees have fast growth characteristics. This satisfies the short-term benefit demands of present-biased preference farmers, leading to a higher WTP. Farmers ...
(BLASTn) was used to identify all retrieved sequences by determining the phylogenetic neighbors from the databases of National Centre for Biotechnology Information (NCBI). Evolutionary phylogenetic trees were determined by the neighbor-joining method using Maximum Composite Likelihood as a correction ...