Preliminary survey to set up a long-term mangrove monitoring site and to establish a transcriptome database for primary mangrove species in Sabah

Watanabe Shin, . and Tangah Joseph, . (2016) Preliminary survey to set up a long-term mangrove monitoring site and to establish a transcriptome database for primary mangrove species in Sabah. [Proceedings Paper]

Mangroves are distributed in intertidal environments and major contributors to maintain stable coastal and marine environment. Their root systems protect the reefs from terrestrial sediments and other forms of pollution and provide attachment surfaces for various marine organisms. In spite of the fact of their ecological importance human activities have strongly affected mangrove distributions resulting in decline of worldwide mangrove ecosystem. Although every endeavor to rehabilitate mangrove forests has been made in many countries there is still room for increasing success rate of reforestation by improving the silvicultural method especially by matching suitable mangrove species with degraded area. In order to make a decision of which mangrove species should be planted in a target place it is necessary to know which environmental factor affects the niche of each mangrove species. In other words it is important to comprehend the tolerant mechanism in each mangrove species against various environmental stresses such as flooding salinity or shading. Therefore we set the purpose of our research to elucidate the mechanism of how the ecological niche of each mangrove species is decided. Fortunately we could start this research project at a rehabilitated site in suburban Sandakan in June of 2014 in collaboration with Sabah Forestry Department and International Society for Mangrove Ecosystems. To achieve this research purpose three goals are set as described below. 1 to find a suitable afforestation method by monitoring the growth of replanted mangrove trees by using the following equipment or an application such as a laser compass an unmanned aerial vehicle UAV an algorithm of structure from motion SfM. 2 to understand the function of each mangrove species genetically a transcriptome database will be established by using next generation sequencer NGS. 3 to clarify change of the biodiversity as a result of mangrove rehabilitation regular monitoring will be conducted. In this presentation some research results obtained from a rehabilitated mangrove forest in Malaysian state of Sabah and natural mangrove forests in Micronesia and Japan will be featured.

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Abstract

Mangroves are distributed in intertidal environments and major contributors to maintain stable coastal and marine environment. Their root systems protect the reefs from terrestrial sediments and other forms of pollution and provide attachment surfaces for various marine organisms. In spite of the fact of their ecological importance human activities have strongly affected mangrove distributions resulting in decline of worldwide mangrove ecosystem. Although every endeavor to rehabilitate mangrove forests has been made in many countries there is still room for increasing success rate of reforestation by improving the silvicultural method especially by matching suitable mangrove species with degraded area. In order to make a decision of which mangrove species should be planted in a target place it is necessary to know which environmental factor affects the niche of each mangrove species. In other words it is important to comprehend the tolerant mechanism in each mangrove species against various environmental stresses such as flooding salinity or shading. Therefore we set the purpose of our research to elucidate the mechanism of how the ecological niche of each mangrove species is decided. Fortunately we could start this research project at a rehabilitated site in suburban Sandakan in June of 2014 in collaboration with Sabah Forestry Department and International Society for Mangrove Ecosystems. To achieve this research purpose three goals are set as described below. 1 to find a suitable afforestation method by monitoring the growth of replanted mangrove trees by using the following equipment or an application such as a laser compass an unmanned aerial vehicle UAV an algorithm of structure from motion SfM. 2 to understand the function of each mangrove species genetically a transcriptome database will be established by using next generation sequencer NGS. 3 to clarify change of the biodiversity as a result of mangrove rehabilitation regular monitoring will be conducted. In this presentation some research results obtained from a rehabilitated mangrove forest in Malaysian state of Sabah and natural mangrove forests in Micronesia and Japan will be featured.

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Item Type:	Proceedings Paper
AGROVOC Term:	Mangrove forests
AGROVOC Term:	Mangroves
AGROVOC Term:	Wetlands
AGROVOC Term:	Coastal area
AGROVOC Term:	Forest management
AGROVOC Term:	Monitoring
AGROVOC Term:	Information storage
AGROVOC Term:	Databases
AGROVOC Term:	Afforestation
AGROVOC Term:	plant genetics
Geographical Term:	MALAYSIA
Depositing User:	Ms. Suzila Mohamad Kasim
Last Modified:	24 Apr 2025 05:16
URI:	http://webagris.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/13779

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