INTERACTION BETWEEN DISTRIBUTION OF MANGROVE SPECIES (Avicenna

sp. and Sonneratia sp.) ON THE POPULATIONS OF COPEPODS IN MORIB.

Mangrove natural surroundings are among the most profitable biological systems on
the Earth (Alongi,Sasekumar,Tirendia & Dixona, 1998). Their low vegetational diversity gives
remarkable richness of related species and and trophic interactions (Sousa & Dangremond,
2011). Mangrove ecosystems offer an extremely diverse area of benthic substrate for infauna,
from the mud or sand mixed with mangrove, river and tide until hard substrate
(Froneman,2004). Copepods play an important part as trophic linkage between the upper
trophic level and primary producer in an aquatic food web (Robertson & Duke,1987).
Estuarine zooplankton like copepods could be classified into groups depends on their salinity
regime (Grindley,1984). Besides, the presence of mangrove forest itself bring influences to the
copepod assemblages in the area (Gee & Somerfield,1997). Regardless of the significance of
copepods at the secondary tropic level (Richmond, Wethey & Woodin,2007), the scales and
habit of temporal varieties in abundance and biodiversity are still less known in the specific
aspects of mangrove ecosystem (Magalhes, Pereira, & Costa, 2015). Evaluation of copepods
abundance are majors to the assurance of biomass and efficiency , which are critical to the
understanding of energy flow and the trophodynamics of mangrove ecosystem (Krumme &
Liang,2004). In addition to all these considerations, the estimation of biodiversity on both a
territorial and worldwide scale is an increasingly essentials in ecology, given the developing
proof of significance anthropogenic alterations to the biosphere (Palumbi,2001). Thus, the
main aim of this study is to help in understanding the effects of mangrove species distributions
on the copepod populations in Morib.
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NAME :
NUR HIDAYAH BINTI AHMAD PAUZI

MATRIC NO :
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LECTURER NAME :
PROF. DR. NAKISAH BINTI MAT AMIN