Appraising effect of environmental parameter toward mangrove area: A review

Abstract

Mangrove is a valuable ecological and economic resource. However, mangrove is repeatedly being threatened by many ideas such as reclamation including aquaculture, agriculture or development projects. Similar trend is happening in Malaysia that the annual mangrove loss in some major state in Peninsular Malaysia is about 1,282 ha or about 1% a year since 1990. The actual scenario of mangrove ecosystem and what affect its growth are necessary to be study especially in Malaysia. This paper reviews the concept of mangrove study and its potential implementation in Malaysia mangrove area. This review paper aims to provide a short overview on mangrove ecosystem, their benefit and the application of remote sensing in mangrove analyses and monitoring including the technique applied and the output from mangrove study. A suggestion and recommendation for the next study were discussed at the end of this paper. In this paper, a research proposal for the next study was mentioned.