How many years until mangrove ecosystems recover from catastrophic oil spills?

Burns, Kathryn A.; Garrity, Stephen D.; Levings, Sally C.

doi:10.1016/0025-326x(93)90062-o

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“…The patchiness of the oiling and the heterogeneity of the spatial and temporal aspects of return to background concentrations, or nondetectable concentrations for petroleum hydrocarbon in the marsh sediments, is consistent with results of studies of previous spills that oiled marshes or mangroves (e.g., Teal et al, 1978;Burns and Teal, 1979;NRC, 1985NRC, , 2003Baca et al, 1987;Burns et al, 1993Burns et al, , 1994Reddy et al, 2002;Bejarano and Michel, 2010).…”

Section: Marshessupporting

confidence: 72%

Synthesis and Crosscutting Topics of the GoMRI Special Issue

Farrington¹,

Burns²,

Leinen³

2016

Oceanog

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Section: Marshessupporting

confidence: 72%

Synthesis and Crosscutting Topics of the GoMRI Special Issue

Farrington¹,

Burns²,

Leinen³

2016

Oceanog

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“…Besides recent changes in vegetation, geomorphic changes in the Sundarbans environment are also rapid (Personal observation; Faizuddin, 2003). Also, there were 157 major oil spills in tropical seas between 1974 and 1990 (Burns et 1993). Deep mud coastal habitats may take 20 years or more to recover from the toxic effects of such oil spills Some more details on specific threats to the Sundarbans are given in the following sections.…”

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Analysis of Chemical Contaminations in Natural Resources

Abdul¹

2014

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Natural forest resources like Sundarbans mangroves in Asia including Bangladesh, India, and East Africa previously contained a much fuller range of species (Seidensticker, and Hai, 1983; Khan, 1997). In the Southeast Asian region, species diversity of mangroves was previously much higher, where approximately two-thirds of all species and 70% of the major vegetation types with 15% of terrestrial species in the Bangladesh-India-Malayan realm have already been destroyed (Ellison, 1998(Ellison, , 2000. Despite this designation, this natural forest resources (Sundarbans) in Bangladesh has been facing tremendous problems, including that of dieback (top-dying), human destructions, deforestations, illicit fellings, missmanagement of the main tree species (Heritiera fomes) which is affecting millions of trees. The cause of this dieback is still not well understood unknown. The present work has investigated one of the possible factors that might be causing this topdying, namely the concentrations of various chemical elements present in the sediments, particularly heavy metals, though other chemical parameters such as the pH, salinity, moisture content of the sediment and nutrient status were also assessed. Tree height and trunk diameter were determined as indications of tree growth, counts of seedlings and saplings were made to assess regeneration success, and the intensity of top-dying within the sampled plots was recorded on a rank scale. However, the present results have showed that Sn, Exchangeable K, soil pH, Pb , Zn and Ni could be directly linked with top-dying disease of Heritiera fomes (Sundri) in Sundarbans, probably particularly by weakening the vigor of the trees and people and allowing other factors such as pathological agents to attack the plants and surrounding people in Sundarbans, Bangladesh (Awal, 2014). In fact, from since then and still now, the natural resource of Bangladesh like Sundarbans is being disturbed ecologically by human destruction.

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“…Isto se deve, entre outros fatores: ao baixo hidrodinamismo, que dificulta a remoção natural do óleo; a presença de sedimento lamoso pobre em oxigênio, o que torna a biodegradação mais lenta e a escassez de procedimentos de limpeza eficientes que não causem impactos adicionais ao ecossistema. Tudo isto, faz com que o óleo permaneça neste ambiente por um longo período de tempo que pode superar 20 anos (Burns, 1993).…”

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Mapping environmental oil spill sensitivity of Santos estuarine systems, São Paulo state

Cantagallo¹,

Milanelli

2008

Braz. J. Aquat. Sci. Technol.

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How many years until mangrove ecosystems recover from catastrophic oil spills?

Cited by 131 publications

References 11 publications

Synthesis and Crosscutting Topics of the GoMRI Special Issue

Synthesis and Crosscutting Topics of the GoMRI Special Issue

Analysis of Chemical Contaminations in Natural Resources

Mapping environmental oil spill sensitivity of Santos estuarine systems, São Paulo state

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