Mangroves Along the Brazilian Coast

  1. Ferreira, Tiago Osório 4
  2. Otero, Xosé Luis 1
  3. Nóbrega, Gabriel Nuto 23
  4. Queiroz, Hermano Melo 4
  5. Barcellos, Diego 5
  6. Vidal-Torrado, Pablo 4
  1. 1 Department of Soil Science and Agricultural Chemistry, School of Biology, CRETUS Institute, University of Santiago de Compostela, Santiago, Spain
  2. 2 Graduate Program in Earth Sciences (Geochemistry), Department of Geochemistry Federal Fluminense, University Niterói Brazil, Niterói, Brazil
  3. 3 Soil Science Department, Federal University of Ceará, Fortaleza, CE, Brazil
  4. 4 Luiz de Queiroz College of Agriculture, University of São Paulo (ESALQ-USP), Av. Pádua Dias 11, CEP, Piracicaba, São Paulo, 13418-900, Brazil
  5. 5 Department of Environmental Sciences, Rua São Nicolau, Federal University of São Paulo (UNIFESP), Diadema, SP, 09913-030, Brazil
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World Soils Book Series

ISSN: 2211-1255,  2211-1263

ISBN: 9783031199479,  9783031199493

Year of publication: 2023

Pages: 411-421

Type: Book chapter

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-19949-3_15 GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openOpen access editor

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Abstract

Mangrove soils cover an extensive area along the Brazilian Coast providing countless ecological services, mostly linked to soil-forming processes (e.g., nutrient cycling; contaminant retention, and C sequestration). Due to the distinct characteristics of the coast (e.g., climate and relief) these soils present a wide variation regarding their characteristics, resulting from a differentiated intensity of the occurrence of processes such as paludization, gleization, sulfidization, and salinization, which affect the ecological services provided by such ecosystems. The intensity of the pedogenetic processes that occur in mangrove soils is controlled by the soil-forming factors, resulting in the high pedodiversity of mangrove soils along the Brazilian coast. For example, the daily tidal variation and coastal environmental setting, associated with the “classical” factors such as climate and seasonal variations, organisms and bioturbation, and (micro)relief influence the redox conditions, which control the intensity of soil-forming processes. Besides, anthropogenic activity may affect the occurrence of the pedogenetic processes leading to the degradation of such an important, but an endangered ecosystem.

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