Ekologi Perairan Pulau Tunda Serang Banten: Keadaan Umum Hutan Mangrove

Mangrove forests now face serious threats, where human anthropogenic pressure has increased rapidly in coastal areas around mangrove areas. The ecological study of the waters of Tunda Serang Banten Island, especially the general condition of its mangrove forests, was carried out in January 2014. This was intended as a baseline in evaluating mangrove management in Indonesia (especially Tunda Serang Banten Island) and the presence of Indonesian mangrove forests could be maintained in the future. Data on the condition of the mangrove vegetation of Tunda Serang Banten Island was collected by making line transects and plots drawn from the reference point (outermost mangrove stands) and perpendicular to the coastline to the mainland. While the measurement of water quality is done in-situ. The results showed that the growth of the mangrove forest of Tunda Serang Island in Banten on the East (Station 1) was younger than that in the South (Station 2). Then the density is also higher in the East than in the South, but the condition of the mangrove forests of both stations is still relatively good and very dense. In addition, the environmental quality of Tunda Island's mangrove vegetation is still relatively high, the diversity and dominance of mangrove forests is low, uniformity in a somewhat balanced condition, regular distribution patterns and water quality parameters are not a barrier to the growth of mangroves.