Amal Arfan, Muh Rais Abidin, Nur Zakariah Leo, Uca Sideng, Sukri Nympa, Rosmini Maru, Erman Syarif, Yudistira Lao
This study aims to determine the amount of litter production and the decomposition rate of Rhizopora mucronata leaves in the Tongke-Tongke Village, Sinjai Regency, South Sulawesi Provincy, Indonesia. The results showed that the average productivity of Rhizopora mucronata litterfall is 2.89 g/m2/day or 10.55 tons/ha/year. The highest production of Rhizopora mucronata litterfall came from observational station III, with an average of 3.18 g/m2/day, while observational station IV shows the lowest production with an average of 2.29/m2/day. During the study, decomposition rate of Rhizopora mucronata leaves showed that station I experienced the fastest decomposition with an average of 0.27 g/day and the slowest one originated from the station IV with an average of 0, 14 g/day. © 2018, Thai Society of Higher Eduation Institutes on Environment. All rights reserved.
Department of Geography, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Universitas Negeri Makassar, Indonesia
