Mangrove Ecosystem

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The growth and development of a forest known as forest succession (forest succession or SERE). Mangrove forest is an example of forest succession in wetlands (called hydrosere). Given this succession process, please note that the zoning of mangrove forests in the above description is not eternal, but gradually shifted.

Succession begins with the formation of an exposure to mud (mudflat) that can serve as a substrate of mangrove forests. Until the point of this new substrate invaded by propagules, propagules of mangrove vegetation, and begin to form pioneer vegetation of mangrove forests.

The growth of mangrove forests are caught somewhere in mud. Fine soil that washed out the river flow, ocean currents carried the sand, all kinds of waste and destruction of vegetation, will be deposited among the roots of mangrove vegetation. Thus the mud will gradually accumulate more and more and faster. Mangrove forests are increasingly widespread.

At the time of the mangrove forests will begin to dry out and become no longer suitable for the growth of pioneer species such as Avicennia alba and Rhizophora mucronata. Into this section enter a new species such as Bruguiera spp. The new zone is formed at the rear.

Similarly, changes continue to occur, which took decades to hundreds of years. While the pioneer zone continues to advance and expand the mangrove forest, the next zones also appear in the dry outback.

The above description is a simplification, of the true state of nature is much more complicated. Because there is always extensive mangrove forests continue to grow, perhaps even be discharged due to natural factors such as abrasion. Similarly, the emergence of the zones are not always predictable. In appropriate areas, mangrove forests may be growing widespread reach a thickness of 4 km or more, although generally less than that.