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Ecosystem of Mangroves

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Mangrove forests, like many tidal wetlands, accumulate nutrients  like  nitrogen, phosphorus, heavy metals, and trace elements that are deposited in estuarine waters from terrestrial sources, and thus act as nutrient "sinks" for these materials. Mangroves recycle carbon, nitrogen, and other elements extracted from dead and decomposing components turning these into dissolved, particulate, and gaseous forms. The inflow and outflow of water from this habitat assists  in the  distribution  of those  materials to areas where other organisms may utilize them. The major primary production  within the  mangrove ecosystem is courtesy of the trees The detached parts of the mangrove plants are called litterfall. These include leaves, stems roots, flowers, and fruits. Most of this enters the waters as litterfall. The seeds of Aruna terminus and Rhizophora species account for 25 percent of  the whole  litterfall of the mangrove habitat The latter tall is heaviest du

MANGROVES : The Tidal Forest

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The word "Mangrove" may be a combination of the Portuguese word "Mangue" and also the English word "grove". Mangrove may be a term accustomed to describing various groups of plants adapted to a wet, saline habitat. The term might also, typically, visit a personal species. Mangrove plants are thus, salt-tolerant plants of tropical and subtropical intertidal regions of the globe. This diverse group of plants has been categorized as (i) true mangroves and (ii) mangrove associates.   Mangroves establish coastal wetlands forests at the intertidal zones of estuaries, backwaters, deltas, creeks, lagoons, marshes, and dust fields of tropical and subtropical regions of the globe. the precise regions where these plants occur are termed mangrove ecosystems. Despite these divisions, it's sometimes difficult to exactly define a mangrove species. Terms like mangrove community, mangrove ecosystem, mangrove forest, mangrove swamp, and mangal are used interchangeably t