Mercury concentration data from Matang Mangrove Forest Reserve, Malaysia
Giovanna Wolswijk,
Behara Satyanarayana,
Quang Dung Le,
Yin Fui Siau,
Ahmad Nazila Bin Ali,
Ibrahim Sunkanmi Saliu,
Muhammad Amir Bin Fisol,
Cristina Gonnelli,
Farid Dahdouh-Guebas
Affiliations
Giovanna Wolswijk
Systems Ecology and Resource Management, Department of Organism Biology, Faculté des Sciences, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Avenue F.D. Roosevelt 50, CPi 264/1, B-1050, Bruxelles, Belgium; Corresponding author.
Behara Satyanarayana
Systems Ecology and Resource Management, Department of Organism Biology, Faculté des Sciences, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Avenue F.D. Roosevelt 50, CPi 264/1, B-1050, Bruxelles, Belgium; Mangrove Research Unit (MARU), Institute of Oceanography and Environment (INOS), Universiti Malaysia Terengganu (UMT), 21030, Kuala Nerus, Terengganu, Malaysia; Corresponding author. Systems Ecology and Resource Management, Department of Organism Biology, Faculté des Sciences, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Avenue F.D. Roosevelt 50, CPi 264/1, B-1050, Bruxelles, Belgium.
Quang Dung Le
Mangrove Research Unit (MARU), Institute of Oceanography and Environment (INOS), Universiti Malaysia Terengganu (UMT), 21030, Kuala Nerus, Terengganu, Malaysia
Yin Fui Siau
Mangrove Research Unit (MARU), Institute of Oceanography and Environment (INOS), Universiti Malaysia Terengganu (UMT), 21030, Kuala Nerus, Terengganu, Malaysia
Ahmad Nazila Bin Ali
Mangrove Research Unit (MARU), Institute of Oceanography and Environment (INOS), Universiti Malaysia Terengganu (UMT), 21030, Kuala Nerus, Terengganu, Malaysia
Ibrahim Sunkanmi Saliu
Systems Ecology and Resource Management, Department of Organism Biology, Faculté des Sciences, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Avenue F.D. Roosevelt 50, CPi 264/1, B-1050, Bruxelles, Belgium
Muhammad Amir Bin Fisol
Mangrove Research Unit (MARU), Institute of Oceanography and Environment (INOS), Universiti Malaysia Terengganu (UMT), 21030, Kuala Nerus, Terengganu, Malaysia
Cristina Gonnelli
Laboratorio di Ecologia e Fisiologia Vegetale, Dipartimento di Biologia, Università degli studi di Firenze (UNIFI), Via Micheli 1, 50121, Firenze, Italy
Farid Dahdouh-Guebas
Systems Ecology and Resource Management, Department of Organism Biology, Faculté des Sciences, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Avenue F.D. Roosevelt 50, CPi 264/1, B-1050, Bruxelles, Belgium; Laboratory of General Botany and Nature Management, Biocomplexity Research Focus, Department of Biology, Faculty of Sciences and Bio-engineering Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Campus Oefenplein, VUB-APNA-WE Pleinlaan 2, B-1050, Brussels, Belgium
This paper presents the results of mercury analysis on 786 abiotic (surface sediments) and biotic (plant and animal tissues) samples collected from 10 sites at Matang Mangrove Forest Reserve in Peninsular Malaysia. Sediment samples were collected at the surface level from both river bank and forest understory. Whereas plant tissues obtained from Rhizophora apiculata Blume and Rhizophora mucronata L. consisted of leaves (in four stages namely young, mature, senescent and decomposing), bark and roots (divided into xylem, cortex and epidermis), the animal samples were represented by muscle tissue of the gastropod Cassidula aurisfelis Bruguière and the cockle Tegillarca granosa L. The mercury concentration measurements were obtained through a cold vapor atomic absorption spectrometer. The core data have been analysed and interpreted in the paper “Distribution of mercury in sediments, plant and animal tissues in Matang Mangrove Forest Reserve, Malaysia” [1]. Keywords: Mangrove sediment, Plant tissue, Fauna, Toxic elements, Pollution, Rhizophora, Hg partitioning
