Distribution, Abundance, and Sustainable Challenge of Mangrove Among Coastal East Nusa Tenggara
Willem Amu Blegur*, Erny Poedjirahajoe* and Azwar Maas
ABSTRACT
Big Islands provide more sites for flora and fauna to live on them, and vice versa. Actually, Nusa Tenggara is an archipelago that contains some big islands and so many small islands. Naturally, biodiversity will be impacted as a result of abiotic factors on small islands that lack habitat sites. Similar to the mangrove ecosystem, research in these areas had to be inferred. Mangrove is one important ecosystem laid in the coastal area of Nusa Tenggara with ecological and economic values. Investigation about interaction and correlation among abiotic components that influence biotic ones, such as mangrove vegetation and others, just like crabs, fish, shrimps, birds, and so on. We collected the data as primer data in Nusa Tenggara coastal areas and analyzed it, combining it with secondary data and using land use changes after some periods of intensive anthropogenic activity to estimate the pressure inside the mangrove ecosystem and how to deal with mangrove conservation in some islands connected to human activities surrounding them.
