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Investigating long-term mangroves and saltmarshs areas changes in the Iranian mangrove habitats (Case study: mangrove habitats of Hormozgan province)
Davood Mafi Gholami * , Masoumeh Baharlouii2 , Beytollah Mahmoudi2
Shahrekord university, Department of forest sciences, Faculty of natural resources and earth sciences, Shahrekord university, Shahrekord, Iran , d.mafigholami@nres.sku.ac.ir
2- Department of forest sciences, Faculty of natural resources and earth sciences, Shahrekord university, Shahrekord, Iran
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Mangrove ecosystems and their adjacent saltmarshes provide a range of ecosystem services that play an important role in the sustainability of the coastal ecosystem and the loss of balance between the two ecosystems will reduce the quality of these services. Hence, investigation of changes occurred in the areas of mangroves and sailmarshes can help to provide the necessary solutions to maintain their balance and ecosystem services. Hence, the aim of this study was to investigate the changes occurred in the areas of mangroves and saltmarshes in mangroves habitats of Hormozgan province during a long-term period. To this end, by analyzing satellite images, the changes of areas of mangroves and saltmarshes were investigated in the 1986, 2000 and 2016. The results of this study showed that due to a significant reduction in the areas of various mangrove habitats zones, the extent of mangroves has increased about 17 ha over the 30-year period (1986 to 2016) and at the same time, saltmarshes areas significantly increased (about 9270 hectares). In fact, It can be said that the various environmental factors such as climatic change, local geomorphology and hydrology and human activities can limit the development of mangroves and provided appropriate conditions for development of saltmarshes in mangrove habitats of Hormozgan province in this period.
Keywords: Coastal ecosystems, Spatio-temporal monitoring, RS, GIS
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Type of Study: Research | Subject: Special
Received: 2017/03/1 | Accepted: 2018/04/29 | Published: 2019/05/3
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