Journal article
Invasive capacity of the mangrove Sonneratia apetala in Hainan Island, China
K Xin, Q Zhou, SK Arndt, X Yang
Journal of Tropical Forest Science | FOREST RESEARCH INST MALAYSIA | Published : 2013
Abstract
The mangrove Sonneratia apetala has been introduced into China since 1985 as a plantation species in coastal area. There has been long time speculation regarding the invasive capacity of this species and its contribution to the degradation of native plant communities. In this study, we evaluated in the field the invasive capacity of S. apetala by investigating its dispersal, recruitment and regenerative capacity in the Dongzhai Harbour region of Hainan Island, China. Remotely sensed data showed that the total area of S. apetala plantings decreased from 20 ha in 1999 to 17.68 ha in 2010. Community investigation data showed that S. apetala was the dominant species with 57.3% of average IVI (im..
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Awarded by Ministry of Science and Technology of China
Awarded by Natural Science Foundation of China
Funding Acknowledgements
The study was supported by grants No. 2010CB134500 'Study of Forest Changing along the Coast and Islands Ecological Security in Hainan', No. 2012BAC18B04 from the Ministry of Science and Technology of China and No. 31260131 'Estimating of Mangrove on Multi-spatial Scale' from the Natural Science Foundation of China.