1. Mangrove Forests Eric, Noah, and Maya

2. Tangled Roots Tours

3. Mangroves Around the World

4. Untangling Mangroves

5. 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.

7. Climate  Annual average temperature: 75 degrees Fahrenheit and 24 degrees Celsius  Average annual precipitation: 1000-1500 mm  Common extreme weather patterns include tsunamis, heavy rain, and occasional droughts in the south

8. Climate

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

10. Why Mangroves?

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

13. 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.

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

17. 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.

19. FUN Activities

20. Boat Tours

21. Eagle Watching

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

23. 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.

24. Area Of Mangroves Over The Years

25. Sources  http://ocw.unu.edu/international- network-on-water-environment-and- health/unu-inweh-course-1- mangroves/Degradation-and- destruction-of- http://ocw.unu.edu/international- network-on-water-environment-and- health/unu-inweh-course-1- mangroves/Degradation-and- destruction-of-  http://www.nps.gov/bisc/naturescience/ mangroves-and-climate-change.htm http://www.nps.gov/bisc/naturescience/ mangroves-and-climate-change.htm  http://mangrove.org http://mangrove.org  http://www.blueplanetbiomes.org/mangr ove_forests.htm http://www.blueplanetbiomes.org/mangr ove_forests.htm