Literature Review On Mangroves

Abstract

Mangrove forests are unique bio diverse wetlands and incredibly productive ecosystems that line the coasts of subtropical and tropical coastlines around the world. Mangroves support essential functions benefitting the natural ecosystems of its surrounding area and are also extremely important resource to human communities as well. These trees are survivor, growing where land and water meet and protect the environment by protecting coastal areas and communities from storm surges, waves, tidal currents and typhoons. Although mangroves are naturally hardy and despite of the goods they do, human activities threatened to destroy and degrade these trees beyond repair. This paper contains the literature review that will help to give a better

Thrive in hot, muddy, salty conditions up to one hundred times saltier that would kill most plants (The Ocean Portal Team, 2015). They thrive despite twice daily flooding by ocean tides even if this water were fresh, the flooding alone would drown most trees (American Museum of Natural History: Science Bulletin, 2004). A series of adaptations including a filtration system that keeps out much of the salt and a complex root system that holds the mangrove upright in the shifting sediments (Wolf, 2012) where land and water meet are its natural way of adjusting and adapting to this kind of environment. Despite of its ability to survive in this complex environment, mangroves are still the target of destruction made by humankind. Without any laws and policies covering the safety of mangroves, it might be fully exploited by human activities and eventually this natural ecosystem might be destroyed as a whole. Human awareness and enriching the knowledge about mangroves being essential to life should be given an attention in order to ensure that the existing mangrove forests will be maintain and preserve in a sustainable manner for the use and benefit of the present and future generation. The future generation deserve to get and to meet their own needs so it means that responsible management of natural resources are needed wisely so that it will not come to extinction and will be last forever. The question, “What are the importance of mangrove forests to human communities and to the health of the Earth?” will be further discuss to broaden the information humankind have that will be used as a starting point in making a big realization on the negative impacts of their actions. And the true importance of these great and productive ecosystems, that it holds numerous benefits to both the ecological world and the society alike. Open the mind of human race that mangroves serve as a