Advances in Ecology

Research Article

Effects of Mangrove Zonation and the Physicochemical Parameters of Soil on the Distribution of Macrobenthic Fauna in Kadolkele Mangrove Forest, a Tropical Mangrove Forest in Sri Lanka

Table 1

Summary of the vegetation structure of the 3 mangrove zones in Kadolkele mangrove forest, Negombo. Values are mean ± SE and range in parenthesis ( = 12 quadrat samples from each mangrove zone).
Vegetation structureMangrove zone
Rhizophora Avicennia Lumnitzera
Rhizophora zone   
 Rhizophora mature trees1.7 ± 0.4100
(0–5)  
 Rhizophora seedlings9.5 ± 1.6400
(2–21)  
 Rhizophora pencil roots65.4 ± 12.7000
(16–179)  
Avicennia zone   
 Avicennia mature trees00.75 ± 0.130
 (0-1) 
 Avicennia seedlings029.33 ± 5.790
 (0–62) 
 Avicennia pencil roots0359 ± 30.600
 (215–538) 
Lumnitzera zone   
 Lumnitzera mature trees0.08 ± 0.0804.17 ± 0.64
(0-1) (1–8)
 Lumnitzera seedlings000.17 ± 0.17
  (0–2)
 Lumnitzera pencil roots000