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. 2021 Oct;28(10):5640-5646.
doi: 10.1016/j.sjbs.2021.06.002. Epub 2021 Jun 7.

Assessment of coastal salt marsh plants on the Arabian Gulf region

Hanan Almahasheer  1
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Assessment of coastal salt marsh plants on the Arabian Gulf region

Hanan Almahasheer. Saudi J Biol Sci. 2021 Oct.

Abstract

Salt marshes form along coastlines and are very interesting ecosystems due to their function and services. In the future, salt marsh plants might provide food and medicine as crops irrigated via seawater in hyper-arid regions. In the Arabian Gulf, little is known about salt marsh vegetation. Therefore, a targeted search on scientific literature was performed to provide a comprehensive assessment. Hence, current knowledge of the extent and status of salt marsh in the Arabian Gulf region was reviewed, based on literature-based analysis. Then, historic trends of salt marsh publications were carefully inspected. This study provides a list of salt marsh families and their genera and species, with a total of 51 family 179 genera 316 species in the Arabian Gulf. The largest family was Chenopodiaceae followed by Poaceae, Asteraceae. Moreover, this study identified some of the gaps that could help future directions for scientific research, and help making decisions of conservation, management policies and procedures.

Keywords: And distribution; Biodiversity; Environment; Marine; Plants; Vegetation assessment.

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(A) Historic salt marsh publications in the Arabian Gulf region. (B) Country by publication year in the Arabian Gulf Region. (C) Categories by publication year in the Arabian Gulf Region.
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Publication percentage of total value (A) by reference type (B) by country (C) by categories and (D) by sub category.
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