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Mangroves diversity and erosion mitigation performance in a low salinity soil area: case study of Vinh City, Vietnam

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This study aims to investigate the diversity of mangrove species and their soil erosion mitigation performance in Hung Hoa Mangrove Forest, Vinh City, Vietnam. Under high rainfall climatic condition, the mangrove plants were found to reduce soil erosion due to storm runoff during dry season. The soil organic matter in the covered and uncovered part by species of the mangrove forest was 141.1 ± 37.6 g/kg and 95.2 ± 19.2 g/kg, respectively. The percentage of clay and silt in the mangrove forest, covered and uncovered by mangrove species were found to be 55.7 ± 2.4% and 45.5 ± 2.2%, respectively. The increase in distance from 10,045 to 14,378 m was correlated to the decrease in soil salinity from 5.9 ± 0.8 to 3.8 ± 0.5 ppt (r2 = 0.546; P < 0.05). A total of 11 mangrove species were detected in the mangrove forest. The number of species ascribed to dicotyledons, monocotyledons and pteridophytes in the mangrove forest community were 17, 12 and 3, respectively. Based on the result obtained from this field study, it was observed that the mangrove forest plays an important role to provide growth and reproduction habitat for the local flora and protect the land from the effects of high precipitation.

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Acknowledgements

The current study was supported by the Green Processing, Bioremediation and Alternative Energies Research Group Ton Duc Thang University, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. The authors thank the group of BS, MS students and employees from the Laboratory of Vinh Medical University, Construction Testing Center-Vilas 178 (Vinh City) and Vinh University for their analytical and instrumentation support. The authors also thank IHE Delft (The Netherlands) and IUCN-Mangrove for Future Program for providing infrastructural and staff time support to collaborate with researchers from Ton Duc Thang University (Vietnam).

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  1. Faculty of Environment and Labour Safety, Ton Duc Thang University, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

    Tai Van Tang & Nguyen Tan Phong

  2. Department of Environmental Engineering and Water Technology, IHE-Delft Institute for Water Education, 2601 DA, Delft, The Netherlands

    Eldon R. Rene

  3. Vinh Medical University-Faculty of Public Health, Vinh, Vietnam

    Tran Ngoc Binh

  4. Industrial Ecology Research Group, School of Chemical Engineering, Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore, 632 014, India

    Shishir Kumar Behera

  5. Centre for Tropical Environmental and Sustainability Science, James Cook University, Townsville, QLD, 4811, Australia

    Nguyen Tan Phong

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Van Tang, T., Rene, E.R., Binh, T.N. et al. Mangroves diversity and erosion mitigation performance in a low salinity soil area: case study of Vinh City, Vietnam. Wetlands Ecol Manage 28, 163–176 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11273-019-09704-0

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