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Assessing the status of three mangrove species restored by the local community in the cyclone-affected area of the Ayeyarwady Delta, Myanmar

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This paper assesses the extent of success and failure of mangrove plantations in Myanmar, restored by local people with the help of foresters under a community forestry program initiated in 1995. The species of these restored plantations are Avicennia officinalis, Avicennia marina and Heritiera fomes, each of which was restored on two plots, one on low and one on high ground, yielding a total of six plots. These plots have been continuously monitored in order to investigate survival and growth rates. The plots were established on abandoned land that had been previously used for paddy cultivation. Cyclone Nargis hit these plantations during the monitoring period, at the beginning of May, 2008. As a consequence, the survival rates of A. officinalis on low ground and A. marina on high ground declined slightly, but the overall affect was not severe. Excluding individuals affected by the cyclone, height and diameter growth of A. officinalis and A. marina were significantly higher on low ground than on high ground, i.e. on sites thought to be consistently similar to the natural habitats of these species. Contrary to these two Avicennia species, the height growth of H. fomes was higher on high ground than on low ground; the diameter growth was not significantly different. As the growth of H. fomes was very slow, however, it is still not possible to describe the differences clearly. This study may provide useful guidelines for foresters and local people to establish successful mangrove restorations and to predict production from community-owned mangrove forests.

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Acknowledgments

First and foremost, we would like to express our profound gratitude to all the responsible persons from the Ministry of Forestry in Myanmar, and the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology in Japan for giving us a chance to pursue the research for this paper. We also would like to thank U. Ohn and other FREDA’ members who not only helped us collect data but also arranged accommodation and transportation for our field trips. Our heartfelt appreciation also goes out to Prof. Elgene O. Box, University of Georgia (USA) and Prof. Roger Martin, Yokohama National University, for their thorough reviews of our draft manuscript. Thanks are also due to all students at the laboratory of plant ecology at Yokohama National University for their help and fruitful comments concerning the analysis and interpretation of the collected data. We also thank all local staff and villagers who helped us collect data in the field, and three anonymous reviewers for useful comments that improved this paper.

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  1. Graduate School of Environment and Information Sciences, Yokohama National University, 79-2, Tokiwadai Campus Hodogaya-ku, Yokohama, 240-8501, Japan

    Toe Toe Aung, Ono Katsuhiro & Mochida Yukira

  2. Department for International Development, British Embassy, Rangoon, Myanmar

    Maung Maung Than

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Aung, T.T., Than, M.M., Katsuhiro, O. et al. Assessing the status of three mangrove species restored by the local community in the cyclone-affected area of the Ayeyarwady Delta, Myanmar. Wetlands Ecol Manage 19, 195–208 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11273-011-9211-9

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