LULC Class Name 2000 Area 2014 Area Change 2000-2014 ([km.sup.2]) ([km.sup.2]) Area ([km.sup.2]) Dense mangrove 56.82 43.82 -12.99 Normal mangrove 584.46 909.39 324.93 Cultivated land 1780.01 2529.45 749.44 Other vegetation 336.54 55.96 -280.58 Wet
mudflat 2439.85 2149.31 -290.54 Dry
mudflat 185.79 356.80 171.01 Wet barren/vacant land 1735.72 891.14 -844.59 Dry barren/vacant land 152.96 528.27 375.31 Turbid water 2454.98 2513.98 59.00 Deep water 2220.82 1983.66 -237.16 Total 11947.95 11961.77 13.82 LULC Class Name Rate2000-2014 ([km.sup.2] / year) Dense mangrove -0.93 Normal mangrove 23.21 Cultivated land 53.53 Other vegetation -20.04 Wet
mudflat -20.75 Dry
mudflat 12.21 Wet barren/vacant land -60.33 Dry barren/vacant land 26.81 Turbid water 4.21 Deep water -16.94 Total 0.99
In this study, we aimed to assess the method for
mudflat saline soil amendment by dairy manure and green manuring.
At every profile three samples are collected from three different horizons, namely, bottom of lagoonal creek (A),
mudflat exposed on the landward side (B) and
mudflat exposed on the seaward side C.
The total area of the ZMNNR is just over 50,000 acres, with about 31,000 acres of mangroves and almost 20,000 acres of intertidal
mudflats. Most of this is not contiguous mangrove cover, but patches of mangroves scattered along 900 miles of the Leizhou Peninsula's coastline.
Site IV was located in a
mudflat seaward of the mangrove fringe.
The secret is to start with a
mudflat (a nursery flat with no dividers) of one of the ground covers from our list below, left.
Answering a request from Donna Stovall, manager of the Fish and Wildlife Service's national wildlife refuges on the Hawaiian island of O'ahu, a Navy team recently created some critical
mudflat habitats for endangered water birds on the shores of historic Pearl Harbor.
-- Censuses of wintering shorebirds were conducted in
mudflat habitats along the lower Laguna Madre during November-February of 1992-1993 and 1993-1994.
Sewage sludge is rich in organic matter and other nutrients and can be used for
mudflat salt-soil amendment [9, 20, 21].
The Environment Agency is creating an area of saltmarsh and
mudflat to compensate for the long-term loss of natural habitat from the new Redcar coastal flood defences and other planned flood defence schemes on the estuary.
The Environment Agency project will create 22 hectares of inter-tidal saltmarsh and
mudflat at Greatham Creek and will compensate for the loss of similar habitats across the Tees Estuary and Redcar.
They found that most of the time females mate with a carefully chosen mate in his burrow but sometimes they are willing to mate with other neighbouring male, on the surface of the
mudflat.
When commercial harvesters dug worms from a
mudflat in Canada's Bay of Fundy, the disruption destroyed other creatures that semipalmated sandpipers eat, researchers report in the April CONSERVATION BIOLOGY.
The pounds 2.3m scheme by the Environment Agency to create 22 hectares of inter-tidal saltmarsh and
mudflat at Greatham Creek, on the borders of Stockton and Hartlepool, will compensate for the loss of similar habitats across the Tees estuary - and also at Redcar - which will be lost due to rising sea levels.
