Afforestation is a primary response to the loss and degradation of mangroves worldwide. The successful restoration mangrove ecosystems in part indicated by rebuilding macrobenthic community. However, community dynamic benthic macrofauna after afforestation was poorly known. Here, three quarterly surveys (2006–2007, 2014–2015, 2019–2020) sediment grain size were conducted mix-planted stand (Kand...