Essay on Lagoons ecosystem around the Muscat region

 Introduction of Lagoons ecosystem around the Muscat region

The Lagoon is referred to as the body consisted of water, and it’s separated from larger water bodies by the natural barriers. The word Lagoon is an Italian word which means lake or Pond. The term lagoon was mainly used in geographical studies, and geography defines this word as a big reason which is consisted of one or more than one bays. The lagoons were also found as gravel and Mixed sand coastlines. For Example, Laguna Madre situated on the Texas Gulf Coast this lake has made from bays and lakes, and the other laguna beach which is presented in Southern California is not the lagoon at all. The lakes were classified into two types of lagoon Atoll lagoons and Coastal lagoons.

Atoll Lagoons come into existence when an Island is properly settled down under the water and leaves a ring of coral, and later on, this started growing in an upward direction. And a lagoon is often deep from the inside, and its outer body is thin, the combination of water and coral growth were the reasons in the creation of a lagoon. The Atoll lagoon takes a long time off period to develop; it may take almost 300,000 years.

Coastal Lagoons can be created along with sloping beaches. These types of lakes were mainly shallow than that of Atoll lagoons, and these types of lakes were separated from the Oceans of an Island, sandbanks, and reefs. In most of the conditions, coastal lakes were inlets connected to the ocean.

Sea level rise refers to the existing amount of sediments. Tidal range contributed to the development of lagoons, and these types of bays usually dynamic and younger than atoll lagoons, and coastal lagoon mostly shorter because they expand locations on the shore. (Carrasco, 2016)

Fig 1 landscape of Muscat Oman             Fig 2. Mangrove Lagoon Muscat

While traveling on the expressway of Muscat, you can find Haya water treatment facility is the landmark full of joy, and Al-Nasab wetlands are the beautiful place lies on Muscat. The Al-Ansab Wetland casts the group of 300 birds fly over the sky in the range of 18 kilometers, including four lagoons. The best time to capture the beautiful movement of flying birds was early in the morning. To visit the Westland of the Muscat, one should need to make an appointment first by calling or visiting their website. The land has the divers presentation of birds in their habitat. The first lagoon of the Wetland was shallow in nature and cover by beautiful flamingos. The feathers of flamingos seemed to be white while looking from the binocular, and the flexibility of their neck looks superb, the lagoon of the wetland provides a place of living for many other birds including flamingos. They enjoy many microorganisms that live under the water, along with little shrimps that live in the lagoons as well.

Watching these birds in their habitat provides beautiful, relaxing and calming situations for the viewers. One of the locations of the landmark where we see the bird hide next to the water; this means one can also view the bird-up-close. The member of the management of the wetland tells the viewers about the specific places where one can watch the birds, and the view is so different from the other ones. In the last few months, there were not so many birds to seem, but now there is a large number f group of birds, and this group includes almost five species — the expert of the wetland sais that the summer season was the breeding season of the native birds, such as doves, flamingos, Red-Wattled Lapwing, Grey Francolin, White-tailed Lapwing, and sparrows. The owner of the Wetland told us that they conduct a survey every weak to take the record of the spices and birds which were living there or visits the wetland for the specific time of any season. Many of the wetland birds were migratory, and they migrate in the winter season. Most of the spices of the bird visit the wetlands to make them beautiful between April to November. As well as the stagnant water contains unwanted pets to reduce and prevents mosquitos, the swamp had the Tilapia and Wadi fish, and these fishes eat the larva of mosquitoes, which is useful to keep away the mosquitos from bays. The fish attract the animals and birds of the wetland. The fishes were shy to humans whenever they see a human being. They rush to hide. The swamp of Muscat also includes the dry area, including woods and leaves, and they remain the same, and no cleaning should be required for the habitats remains. (singh, 2018)

Fig 3. Al Ansab wetland of Oman          Fig 4. A bird view of Al Ansab Wetland of                 Muscat

The ecosystem is very involved; the ecosystem has a combination of animals, micro-organisms, plants, and the natural environment, growing together as a unit depending on one another. Some ecosystems were familiar, and some of them were more exotic. The ecosystem, which includes the flowers, grass, and insects were known as a meadow, and meadow includes micro-organism in it, which helps the soil to nourish and grow plants on the earth. The other one is coral, which provides for the formation of corals and fishes, and seawater and rocks to interact together.

The natural ecosystem of the earth gives a wide range of benefits, which is commonly known as the Ecosystem goods and services. The products that ecosystem provide is vegetables, meat, fishes, fuels,timber and on the other side the services include the supply of water, air purification, recycling of the natural soil and regulatory mechanism of nature, which is used to control the conditions of the climate and the population of insects, micro-organism, and insects. Most of these goods and services are available naturally and freely, without paying any market price. And these were not included in the estimated society’s economic. The experts of the ecosystem classified the four kinds of services which were used for the well being of the humans: providing services, regulating services, cultural services, supporting services. The supply of the goods for themselves, such as food, water, fiber, and timber are the provisioning services. The facilities, which include the government of climate and rainfall, waste, and spread of the diseases, are called regulatory services. The cultural services involving and cover the beauty, inspiration, and recreation to control and contribute to the spiritual welfare. The supporting services include the formation of soil, cycling of photosynthesis and nutrients, which is needed for the growth and production. (Oliver, 2015)

The take care of the ecosystem is necessary for humans because the survival of the ecosystem is under pressure and is already vanished. The land needs change to protect the ecosystem from destroying. We should need to the usage of the area, unsatisfactory agriculturalization, and urbanization, overexposed pollution, change in climate, and incoming spices that have to compete with native ones are a cause behind the destruction of the ecosystem. Once it is destroyed, then it is impossible to be restored. Poor people of the developing countries were more likely, including in the loss of biodiversity, since they were directly relying on the ecosystem good and services. We are spending the earth's natural capital very quickly. To save the ecosystem is the necessary and ethical duty of the human being which is living on the planet and part of the ecosystem, and is essential for the new generation. Humanity needs to understand the standards in the web of life; we have to take decision that we will no longer exploit the planet without paying the price. We need the framework that values the ecosystem, unless and until the natural ecosystem is safeguarded, the goods and services that they are giving would quickly become rare and sought after. It is essential to understand and improve the links between biodiversity, ecosystem, and the well being of humans. (Burkhard, 2017)

Conclusion of Lagoons ecosystem around the Muscat region

It is concluded that the natural ecosystem is ost essential for the survival of all kind of spices which is living on the planet earth. Lagoons are the beauty of the ecosystem; the ecosystem grows through with these natural elements of birds, fices, and different other spices of the land, the water brought greenery which happened naturally with the little help of the humans. The ecosystems provide a human being with many benefits; they give various services including eating and living things. And the above, we discussed the lagoons how they come into being and how they spread beauty as well. The bays were the home ground for some of the spices where they come alive and then flew, and all these movements seem to be very beautiful. And in the above we describe and discuss the beauty of the lagoon, which is situated in the Muscat region of Oman.

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