Abstract

ORTIZ REYES, Adriana; ROBLES LOPEZ, Karen; URREGO GIRALDO, Ligia Estela  and  ROMERO TABAREZ, Magally. Diversity and Biological Interactions in Mangrove Forests Ecosystem. rev. cienc. [online]. 2018, vol.22, n.2, pp.111-127. ISSN 0121-1935.  https://doi.org/10.25100/rc.v22i2.7925.

Mangroves are trees with special morphological and physiological characteristics to survive the extreme environment between the land and sea boundaries, fulfilling an important function as first line tide barriers. Colombia has great concentration of mangrove forests, 2.09% of the planet’s mangroves, where different species of these trees coexist. Mangrove areas have undergone drastic changes due to an increment in anthropic pressure such as deforestation, pollution, high heavy metal contents in water, among others, creating pressures on the ecosystem and the trees. Several studies have found that in some mangrove areas in Colombia, trees are presenting a disease in the form of galls the exact cause of which is unknown. Being aware of the importance this problem, we need to establish the existing information about biodiversity and biological ecosystem interactions in order to determine the most important components that could be affected by the changes that are taking place in the ecosystem and that could lead to internal imbalances and diseases.

Keywords : biodiversity; scales; microbiota; mangrove.

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