Saltmarsh and seagrass beds on the south-eastern coast of Bangladesh: vegetation characteristics and adjacent fisheries diversity

Billah, Masum; Zamal, Hossain; Kamal, Abu Hena Mustafa; Hoque, Ariful; Rahman, Md. Mosaddequr; Hoque, Mohammed Muzammel; Akhtar, Aysha; Hoque, Mohammad Nesarul

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“…Seagrasses are generally marine flowering plants that form ecologically and economically important habitats in coastal zones around the globe [1]. They are marine angiosperms inhabit and support different forms of life from different ecosystems while they co-exist with other ecosystems, including, estuaries, mangroves, coral reefs, and coastal wetlands [2][3][4][5]. The services that are provided by seagrass meadows are very wide, from recreation to carbon sequestration, where the economic valuation is considerably high compared to the other ecosystems [6][7][8].…”

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Trends in Seagrass Research and Conservation in Malaysian Waters

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Idris

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The seagrass ecosystems found in the marine and coastal areas, with substantial eco-nomic and ecological services and span all over the globe excluding the Antarctic region. The Coral Triangle and Southeast Asia are recognized as a worldwide hotspot of seagrass species and habitats, encompassing 10-21 species of seagrass in every na-tion, although the study, understanding, and quantity of publications on seagrass eco-systems are rather limited in the region, including Malaysia. Malaysia contains 18 seagrass species from three families, which occupy 16.8 km2of coastal area, where the study and discovery of seagrass species and meadows began in 1904 with the re-port of Beccari. All of the published papers reviewed reported on Malaysian seagrass-related research, which was divided into nine topic groups: biology and distribution, carbon sequestration, fauna, remote sensing, impact and pollution genetic study, res-toration, microbiological investigation, and others. The extensive study of the seagrass ecosystem began in 1993, and we have identified 183 published papers from Scopus, 141 publications from Web of Science, and 42 from Google Scholar. However, the average trend of the number of publications from 1993 to 1999 was 0.71 ± 0.36, while from 2000 to 2022 was 7.70 ± 1.16 followed by the average trend of the yearly number of publications was 6.78 ± 1.08. The highest number of publications was found on faunal categories (43.17%), followed by biology and distribution (21.85%). The num-ber of articles that were published on Malaysian seagrass meadows each year has been discovered to be rising, which indicates that the trends in seagrass study and publish-ing were progressively garnering the attention of researchers, academics, and the gov-ernment. However, to better understand the sustainable ecology and ecosystem ser-vices provided by seagrass habitats, an emphasis on certain research niches, such as the genetic study of flora and fauna in seagrass meadows, microbial ecology, and res-toration as well as conservation of seagrass species might be helpful.

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Trends in Seagrass Research and Conservation in Malaysian Waters

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Idris

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“…Seagrass is a macrophyte in coastal water (Billah et al 2016). Structurally, the construction of seagrass beds provides nursery grounds for fish juvenile (Jones 2014), and coral fishes (Verweij et al 2008).…”

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Seagrass beds as the buffer zone for fish biodiversity in coastal water of Bontang City, East Kalimantan, Indonesia

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Irawan A, Supriharyono, Hutabarat J, Ambariyanto. 2018. Seagrass beds as the buffer zone for fish biodiversity in coastalwater of Bontang City, East Kalimantan, Indonesia. Biodiversitas 19: 1044-1053. The purpose of this study was to demonstrate theimportance of seagrass beds as a buffer zone for fish biodiversity in a coastal ecosystem. The sampling of seagrass and fish were done inseagrass beds associated with mangrove (ST1) and coral reef (ST2). Sampling period was executed from May 2011 to May 2017.Sampling was done on the lowest tide with a six-month interval. Seagrass sampling was carried out using line transect, and fishsampling was performed using set net (belat local name) operated by local fisherman. The results showed that seagrass beds at ST1composed of C. rotundata and E. acoroides and that at ST2 composed of C. rotundata, E. acoroides, H. pinifolia, H. minor and T.hemprichii. The total number of individual was 42574 divided into 112 fish species. There were 17 species (population: 15.18%)associated explicitly with ST1 and 39 species (population: 34.82%) specifically associated with ST2 while 56 fish species (population:50.0%) were prevalently spread in both stations. This research proved the existence of seagrass beds as a buffer zone for fishbiodiversity.

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“…Based on a study, shallow coastal habitats such as estuaries are considered as physical and biological transition among land, freshwaters and the sea that support abundant life forms [1,2]. According to research, estuaries are highly complex, dynamic and productive habitat mainly because of continual tidal mixing of fresh-and saline-waters [3].…”

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Fish Diversity and Water Characteristics in the Reju Khal River

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Hydrobiological characteristics determine the health of an aquatic ecosystem. Reju Khal estuary on the subtropical coasts is among the major estuarine system in Bangladesh. Monitoring the water characteristics and fish diversity of this estuary is very important due to its ecological and economical services provided to the coastal areas. Consequently, the present study investigated the occurrence and abundance of the ichthyofaunal assemblages and hydrobiological characteristics (temperature, pH, salinity, dissolve oxygen, total dissolve solids, sechi depth, phytoplankton and zooplankton abundance) from December 2012 to August 2013. The ranges of the hydrobiological factors were 16-26C for surface water temperature, 7-8 for pH, 8-29 PSU for salinity, 3-4 mg/L for dissolved oxygen (DO), 33-35 mg/L for total dissolved solids (TDS), 21-45 cm for sechi depth, 27-45 individuals/m 3 for zooplankton abundance and 9400-17100 cells/L for phytoplankton abundance. Overall, 6706 individuals of the faunal population comprised of 36 species from 23 families were captured. The species recorded during the study are the representative of the subtropical coasts. The similarity percentage analysis (SIMPER) suggested that Stolephorus indicus was found to be the most contributory species followed by Mugil cephalus and Mystus gulio. The results of this study will be helpful for management and planning for water quality monitoring in this estuary. It is suggested that frequent monitoring of the hydrobiological recourses of the estuarine systems is very necessary in near future to detect the shifting of baselines, assisting ecosystems-based monitoring and enhancing restoration efforts.

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Saltmarsh and seagrass beds on the south-eastern coast of Bangladesh: vegetation characteristics and adjacent fisheries diversity

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Trends in Seagrass Research and Conservation in Malaysian Waters

Trends in Seagrass Research and Conservation in Malaysian Waters

Seagrass beds as the buffer zone for fish biodiversity in coastal water of Bontang City, East Kalimantan, Indonesia

Fish Diversity and Water Characteristics in the Reju Khal River

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