Mangrove Forests Eric, Noah, and Maya

Tangled Roots Tours

Mangroves Around the World

Untangling Mangroves

Description  Trees grow in areas with low oxygen soil with slow moving waters that allow fine sediments to accumulate.  Mangrove forests only grow at tropical and subtropical latitudes near the equator because they cannot withstand freezing temperatures.  Mangroves are various types of trees up to medium height and shrubs.  Grows in salt water.

Climate  Annual average temperature: 75 degrees Fahrenheit and 24 degrees Celsius  Average annual precipitation: mm  Common extreme weather patterns include tsunamis, heavy rain, and occasional droughts in the south

Climate

Best Time To Visit  During winter months  Locations found all over the world  Generally hot  Best time for bird watching

Why Mangroves?

Flora  65 species  Rhizophora apiculata (red mangrove)  Bruguiera gymnoorhiza (broad leaf orange mangrove)  Avicennia Marina

Red Mangrove Adaptation  Red mangroves, which can live in the most inundated areas, prop themselves up above the water level with stilt roots and can then take in air through pores in their bark (lenticels). These act as breathing straws since there is very little oxygen in the water. Therefore they get it from the air above.

Fauna  Saltwater crocodile  Jabiru  Water Buffalo  Flamigo  Sea snake  Flying Fox  Great Egret

Mud-Skipper Adaptation  The mud-skipper is a fish that can live in and outside of water.  When the mud-skipper is in the water it breathes like other fish by water running over the gills, but on land the fish has an ability to seal the gill passages after gulping air The air and water have to be replaced periodically and thus the fish never strays too far from the water.

FUN Activities

Boat Tours

Eagle Watching

Croc Feeding Disclaimer: Please Keep all body parts in boat. Or you wont come back with all of them.

Threats to Mangroves  Vanishing at a rate of 2.5% a year around the world  Mostly due to human activity: Agriculture, Urbanization, Pollution, and Pesticides.

Area Of Mangroves Over The Years

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