Lai, Jiayong and Cheah, Wee and Palaniveloo, Kishneth and Suwa, Rempei and Sharma, Sahadev (2022) A systematic review of the physicochemical and microbial diversity of well-preserved, restored, and disturbed mangrove forests: What is known and what is the way forward? Forests, 13 (12). ISSN 1999-4907, DOI https://doi.org/10.3390/f13122160.
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Mangrove forests are salt-tolerant intertidal vegetation in tropical and subtropical areas. Mangrove ecosystems provide commercial products, valuable fisheries, and aquaculture resources, protect and stabilize coastlines, and are important carbon sinks. However, they are threatened globally by human activities such as deforestation, pollution, and development causing fragmentation between the well-preserved, restored, and disturbed mangrove forests. Despite this, mangroves can adapt and strive well and are notable well associated with microbial diversity. Here, we investigate the diversity of microbes in different environmental settings using preferred reporting items for systematic and meta-analyses (PRISMA) analysis for publications from Scopus and the Web of Science databases. We report publications since 1987, and observed an exponential increase in publications beginning in the year 2000, which may be associated with the development of molecular and sequencing technologies. Differences in bacterial diversity was observed across the well-preserved, restored, and disturbed mangrove environments. Disturbed mangrove forests had a higher diversity (70 unique taxon orders reported) compared to well-preserved (33 unique taxon orders reported) and restored forests (38 unique taxon orders reported). Based on our analysis, we found that the microbial community plays an important role in the survival and adaptability of mangroves under varying environmental conditions. Thus, there is a need and a lot of potential for research in the area of mangrove microbiology with reference to ecology, biogeochemistry, and geomorphology.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Funders: | Malaysian Ministry of Higher Education Fundamental Research, JIRCAS Grant (Grant No: FRGS/1/2020/WAB02/UM/02/1 (FP119-2020) & IF060-2020) |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Mangrove; Sediment microbiome; Bacterial diversity; Systematic analysis |
| Subjects: | S Agriculture > SD Forestry |
| Divisions: | Deputy Vice Chancellor (Research & Innovation) Office > Institute of Ocean and Earth Sciences |
| Depositing User: | Ms. Juhaida Abd Rahim |
| Date Deposited: | 23 Nov 2023 05:00 |
| Last Modified: | 23 Nov 2023 05:00 |
| URI: | http://eprints.um.edu.my/id/eprint/40293 |
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