ORIGINAL RESEARCH
Effect of Shrimp Aquaculture Effluent
on Mangrove Sediment in Beibu Bay
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Key Laboratory of the Ministry of Education for Coastal and Wetland Ecosystems, College of the Environment
and Ecology, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361102, China
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Key Laboratory of Ecology of Rare and Endangered Species and Environmental Protection, Ministry of Education,
College of Life Sciences, Guangxi Normal University, Guilin 541006, China
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Guangxi Key Laboratory of Rare and Endangered Animal Ecology, Guangxi Normal University, Guilin 541006, China
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Guangxi Key Laboratory of Marine Disaster in the Beibu Gulf, Beibu Gulf University, Qinzhou 535011, China
Submission date: 2021-03-06
Final revision date: 2021-07-04
Acceptance date: 2021-07-12
Online publication date: 2021-12-07
Publication date: 2022-01-28
Corresponding author
Hai-Lei Zheng
Key Laboratory of the Ministry of Education for Coastal and Wetland Ecosystems, College of the Environment and Ecology, Xiamen University, China
Pol. J. Environ. Stud. 2022;31(1):795-802
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ABSTRACT
Mangrove wetlands are natural barriers which purify inland pollution and reduce its flux to the
ocean, which plays an important role in controlling coastal water nutrient and nutrients cycling.
Sediment, water, and vegetation cooperate with each other to maintain the normal function of mangrove
wetland ecosystems. Among them, sediment is an important place for benthic organism activity, landsea
interface material exchange, pollutant containment, and self-purification. Pore-water acts as a crucial
medium for material exchange in the water-sediment interface, as it is closely related to the migration,
release and transformation of pollutants. Understanding the characteristics of sediment and pore-water
in mangrove ecosystems has some guiding significance for mangrove wetland health evaluation. In this
study, the characteristics of sediment and pore-water in mangrove ecosystems with and without shrimp
aquaculture effluent discharge in the area were analyzed. The results were as follows: (1) Total nitrogen,
total phosphorus, and organic matter have positive synergistic effects in the shrimp aquaculture
effluent discharge area, and the effluent has an obvious acidification effect on sediment; (2) NH4+
is main component of dissolved inorganic nitrogen (DIN) in mangrove sediment, and the accumulation
of NO3-, NO2- and DIN in sediment increased with the discharge of shrimp aquaculture effluent.
The change of physiochemical properties of sediment and pore-water is a synergistic process, which can
be a quantitative indicator to evaluate habitat evolution of mangrove in shrimp aquaculture areas.