Abstract:A greenhouse experiment was conducted to investigate the cycling of phosphorus in an artificial mangrove wetland system receiving P-containing “wastewater”. Avicennia marina was selected as the only tested mangrove plant species, which grew in tanks containing soils collected from a mangrove tidal wetland in Shenzhen, South China. Artificial seawater with salinity of 15‰ was pumped into and out of the tanks at regular intervals to simulated semi-diurnal tidal conditions. Synthetic wastewater containing vari...