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Crab biodiversity under different management schemes of mangrove ecosystems

Publish Year: 1394
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JR_GJESM-2-1_009

Index date: 30 May 2017

Crab biodiversity under different management schemes of mangrove ecosystems abstract

Reforestation is one of the Philippines’ government efforts to restore and rehabilitate degraded mangrove ecosystems. Although there is recovery of the ecosystem in terms of vegetation, the recovery of closely-linked faunalspecies in terms of community structure is still understudied. This research investigates the community structure ofmangrove crabs under two different management schemes: protected mangroves and reforested mangroves. The transectplot method was employed in each management scheme to quantify the vegetation, crab assemblages and environmental variables. Community composition of crabs and mangrove trees were compared between protected and reforested mangroves using non-metric multi-dimensional scaling and analysis of similarity in PRIMER 6. Chi-squared was used to test the variance of sex ration of the crabs. Canonical Correspondence Analysis was used to determine the relationship between crabs and environmental parameters. A total of twelve species of crabs belonging to six families were identified in protected mangroves while only four species were documented in reforested mangroves. Perisesarma indiarum and Baptozius vinosus were the most dominant species in protected and reforested mangrove, respectively. Univariate analysis of variance of crab assemblage data revealed significant differences in crab composition and abundance between protected mangroves and from reforested mangroves (P<0.05). Canonical correspondence analysis showed that soil texture was found to greatly affect the distribution of crab assemblages and mangroves (P<0.05). Environmental factors and human intervention had contributed to the difference in crab assemblages in mangrove ecosystems.

Crab biodiversity under different management schemes of mangrove ecosystems Keywords:

Analysis Of Similarity (ANOSIM) , Analysis Of Variance (ANOVA) , Non-metric Multi-Dimensional Scaling (NMDS) , Perisesarma , Plymouth Routines In Multivariate Ecological Research (PRIMER) , Protected Mangroves (PM) , Reforested Mangrove (RM)

Crab biodiversity under different management schemes of mangrove ecosystems authors

M.B Bandibas

Department of Environment and Natural Resources. Ecosystems Research and Development Bureau, College, Los Banos, Laguna 4031, Philippines

V.V Hilomen

Institute of Biological Sciences, University of the Philippines, Los Banos, Laguna, Philippines