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Tamsui River Estuary mangrove forest is located adjacent to the Taipei Metropolitan area, where the river meets the ocean. The Greater Taipei area is Taiwan’s largest metropolitan area with a population of over 7 million. Following successive designations of several mangrove forest reserves in the 1980s, the mangrove area of Tamsui River Estuary mangrove forest now exceeds 108 ha, making it Taiwan’s one of the most important sites for environmental education and research. Mangroves are generally considered to perform critical ecological functions, such as water purification and tidal impact reduction. However, only a few studies have assessed the ecosystem services of mangroves at the Tamsui River Estuary. This study highlighted the mangroves and their relationship to the fringes of Taipei City to assess the ecosystem services provided by the catchment area. The study found that the mangroves have transformed from a wasteland into a mangrove ecosystem, which was familiar to, recognized and protected by citizens and institutions and providing additional cultural services to people. Mangroves are important patches that provide downstream ecosystem services affected by upstream land use changes within the watershed. The government undertook intensive regulatory measures to preserve the environmental quality of the watershed and improve ecosystem services. In this sense, urban mangroves are deeply influenced by urban resilience goals with judgments from multiple perspectives.
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Prior to 1980, there was virtually no artificial control of floods of the upper and middle reaches of the Tamsui River. The major erosion and deterioration phenomena caused by the river were driven by natural flows and storm surges. Since 1980, the flood control plan of the Tamsui River basin has been implemented in accordance with the content of the proposal for the flood control plan of Taipei District. The project was completed in 1999. Since then, the erosion and silting processes of the Tamsui River have been overall clearly limited by the twin dikes located on the either riverbank. In 2004, the “Yuanshanzi Flood Diversion Project” was completed in the upper reaches of the Keelung River, bringing a further state of completeness to the Tamsui River flood control system.
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This research work is supported by the Asia Pacific Network for Global Change Research (APN) under Collaborative Regional Research Programme (CRRP) with grant number CRRP2018-03MY-Hashimoto. The authors also thank the support of JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number JP18K18274 and the Research Institute for Humanity and Nature (RIHN: a constituent member of NIHU) Project No. 14200103.
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Chung, MK., Huang, WH., Peng, LP., Hashimoto, S. (2022). Ecosystem Services of Urban Fringe Mangrove Forests: The Case of Tamsui River Estuary Mangrove Forest, Taiwan. In: Dasgupta, R., Hashimoto, S., Saito, O. (eds) Assessing, Mapping and Modelling of Mangrove Ecosystem Services in the Asia-Pacific Region. Science for Sustainable Societies. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-2738-6_11
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