ArticlePlant diversity2024
Spatio-temporal variation of water salinity in mangroves revealed by continuous monitoring and its relationship to floristic diversity.
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- Role of Antioxidant Systems and Heat Shock Response in Aquatic Animals Under Multistress Conditions.Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Divergent adaptations to salinity fluctuations in mangroves: opportunistic photosynthetic leveraging vs. conservative stress resistance inFrontiers in plant science · 2026Article
- Trait-based evidence of salinity-induced functional diversity loss in mangroves: Implications for ecosystem resilience.Ecological applications : a publication of the Ecological Society of America · 2026Article
- Variability of the optical signatures of dissolved organic matter in soils of different mangrove stands (Ouvéa, New Caledonia).Environmental science and pollution research international · 2025Article
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Abstract
Salinity is among the most critical factors limiting the growth and species distribution of coastal plants. Water salinity in estuarine ecosystems varies temporally and spatially, but the variation patterns across different time scales and salinity fluctuation have rarely been quantified. The effects of salinity on floristic diversity in mangroves are not fully understood due to the temporal and spatial heterogeneity of salinity. In this study, we monitored water salinity at an interval of 10-min over one year in three mangrove catchment areas representing the outer part, middle part, and inner part respectively of Dongzhai Bay, Hainan, China. The number of mangrove community types and dominant mangrove species of the three catchment areas were also investigated. We found that the diurnal variation and dry-season intra-month variation in water salinity were driven by tidal cycles. The seasonal variation in water salinity was mainly driven by rainfall with higher salinity occurring in the dry season and lower salinity occurring in the wet season. Spatially, water salinity was highest at the outer part, intermediate at the middle part, and lowest at the inner part of the bay. The intra-month and annual fluctuations of water salinity were highest at the middle part and lowest at the outer part of the bay. The number of mangrove community types and dominant species were lowest at the outer part, intermediate at the middle part, and highest at the inner part of the bay. These results suggest that the temporal variation of water salinity in mangroves is driven by different factors at different time scales and therefore it is necessary to measure water salinity at different time scales to get a complete picture of the saline environment that mangroves experience. Spatially, lower salinity levels benefit mangrove species richness within a bay landscape, however, further research is needed to distinguish the effects of salinity fluctuation and salinity level in affecting mangrove species richness.
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