Seminar

Coastal mangrove-mudflat wetlands are recognized as one of vital ecosystems in sequestering and storing carbon effectively. They are globally distributed in the coastal intertidal zones mainly between latitudes of 25° N and 25° S, providing both habitats and food sources for a diversity of animals, such as birds, benthic invertebrates and insects, and protecting coastline stabilization. Little however is known on the joint controls of macrobenthos and hydrogeology on coastal carbon biogeochemical processes in mangrove-mudflat wetlands, which is essential to the protection and rational utilization of that. Therefore, this study aims to answer the following untackled questions specific to mangrove-mudflat wetlands: (1) how does the dynamics of macrobenthos modulate the solute transport/ gas emissions? (2) what is the microbial response to macrobenthic temporal distributions? (3) how do macrobenthos rework on subsurface? (4) how do macrobenthos intrinsically shape groundwater flow and solute transport/ gas emissions?

Additional information: Ms. HU Wenli, wenlihu@connect.hku.hk.