Estructura y dinámica del manglar del delta del río Ranchería, Caribe colombiano
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| Formato: | artículo original |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de Publicación: | 2007 |
| Descripción: | We registered seedling survival and biomass increase for Rhizophora mangle L., Avicennia ger-minans L.and Laguncularia racemosa (L.) Gaertn. f., main mangrove species in the Rancheria River delta, Colombia. Only seedlings of R. mangle were found to survive. We also measured maximum rate of litterfall. We estimated annual litterfall through interpolation within an exponential regression performed with maximum and annual litterfall data published in other sources; the value of annual litterfall for the area was estimated to be 12.9 mgha-1y-1. We found a 7.4 mgha-1y-1 increase in biomass. Litterfall constitutes the larger fraction of the 20.2 mgha-1y-1 productivity of this mangrove. We believe this is a very high value for a forest under unfavorable natural and human conditions, such as high seasonality and continuous use of the forest to feed goats and sheep. We consider that the high productivity is a response to both natural and anthropogenic stress. |
| País: | Portal de Revistas UCR |
| Institución: | Universidad de Costa Rica |
| Repositorio: | Portal de Revistas UCR |
| Lenguaje: | Español |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:portal.ucr.ac.cr:article/6053 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/rbt/article/view/6053 |
| Palabra clave: | Manglar caída de hojarasca crecimiento supervivencia productividad Mangrove litterfall growth survival productivity |