Phosphorus budget in mangrove woods and ecosystems to which are added artificial nutrients and wastewater from shrimp aquaculture ponds

In this paper, a model experiment was conducted in Thailand to investigate the water purification ability of mangrove swamps using mangrove forests ecosystem by means of elucidation of the phosphorus budget. Sonneratia caseolaris were planted on tanks of shrimp culture waste water. Results obtained suggest that phosphate is rapidly processed under natural environmental conditions