iMEco Lab

Happy #WorldWetlandsDay2022 a day to acknowledge the essential support these ecosystems provide for a healthy planet and society. So let’s work hard to protect these biodiversity reservoirs and their unexpected visitors

We found that the landward areas of mangroves harbour more debris items than seaward areas, ultimately acting as traps and sinks for macro debris entering the system from both land and water borne sources 4/

Here, we looked at the trends in anthropogenic pollution in the peri-urban mangroves of Hong Kong by counting and measuring the surface area covered by AMD to gauge how other coastal tropical cities will fare with increasing development and insecure waste disposal systems 3/

🚨Another new paper alert🚨 Out today in @STOTEN_journal led by @Yiing with @LyleVorsprung, @cnot_paleo_hku @SCannicci highlighting the plight of anthropogenic marine debris (AMD) pollution in Hong Kong’s mangrove forests. Available at authors.elsevier.com/c/1e8aK… for 40 days 1/n

The recent status of heavy metal pollution in mangroves is poorly understood in Hong Kong. My work aims to update the status and potential impact of both heavy metal pollution in mangroves and provide info to stop invasions from getting out of control #mangrovesareawesome

Both topics are important 1) S.alterniflorus has the potential to quickly disturb invaded intertidal ecosystems, but has not been formally studied since it was first found in Hong Kong a few decades ago.

I’m Angie, a recent BSc graduate from HKU. I’ve worked on heavy metal bioaccumulation in mangrove plants at Mai Po (a Ramsar site at Hong Kong), and the potential effects of the invasive halophyte Sporobolus alterniflorus on local mangroves #mangroveday #WorldMangrovesDay

By combining comparative physiological approach together with molecular techniques, it is hoped that the evolutionary biology of this group of animals, especially the more terrestrial ones can be understood in a bigger picture together with their underlying reasons of success.

Hi guys and #happy #WorldMangrovesDay I am Carl, a final year PhD student interested in the evolutionary biology of semi terrestrial crabs that are crucial to mangrove ecosystem health #MangroveDay

We know that pollution is a problem but we don’t know the rate at which debris accumulates in mangroves and how they affect the epifauna that require unobstructed sediment for feeding and burrowing! I am addressing this question through repeated monitoring and community dynamics