红树林及红树林潮滩盐土广泛分布在世界低纬度海岸地区,是热带、亚热带的一种特殊自然资源,在生产和科研上都具有重要的意义。国内外许多学者从地植物学或土壤学科方面作过不少调查研究和报道。由于红树林及其土壤是热带、亚热带海岸特殊景观的主要组成部分,彼此间有着密切的相关性,尤其在红树植物生态、生理特征和土壤基本特性等方面。本文是在近几年广东省海涂土壤资源调查基础上进行一些探讨,为保护、发展我省红树林资源,及合理利用其土壤资源提供一些科学依据。

Mangrove is a special vegetation type in the coast of low latitudes. It is mainly distributed at the flat tidal area of seashore, windless embayment and lagoon coast of Grangdong province and Hainan Island of China; Mangrove with it's soil constructs particular littoral ecosystem. There is closely correlative fitness between the soil properties and the mangrove biological characteristics. It shows: (1) soil acidation and sulfur accumulation of mangrove; (2) soil salinization and physilogical characteristic of mangrove tolerance to salt; (3) soil swamping and variant root of mangrove; (4) soil texture and mangrove growth power. In order to keep the ecological equilibrium of mangrove coast, it is mecessary to protect and develop mangrove resource, and to use mangrove soil resource suitably.