mangroves in English

noun

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a tree or shrub that grows in chiefly tropical coastal swamps that are flooded at high tide. Mangroves typically have numerous tangled roots above ground and form dense thickets.

The swamps include sago palms, mangroves , and patches of tropical rain forest.

Use "mangroves" in a sentence

1. London was full of mangroves.

2. They were also producing mangroves in a plantation.

3. 7 Coral growth and the accretion of sediments in coastal mangroves will compensate.

4. The mangroves are being cut down; the effects of things like the tsunami get worse.

5. Mangroves provide all the leaves he can eat and there are no predators to worry him.

6. When the tide goes out it leaves mud that the mangroves are trying to colonise.

7. Mangroves, which survive in saltwater and filter impurities, are cut down for lumber and fuel.

8. Moreover, mangroves are important for other ecosystems and host animals like fish, crab and shrimp.

9. Because of the adaptability of these mangroves to different coastal environments, they offer a contrast in shape and size.

10. An example habitat of occurrence of Batis maritima is in the Petenes mangroves ecoregion of the Yucatán.

11. People in temperate countries pay little attention to mangroves: trees that grow at the ocean s edge.

12. The Anhinga is adapted to hunting in the slow-moving, shallow, warm waters found in swamps, marshes, and mangroves

13. Ajman offers an exciting mix of beaches and mangroves to museums and malls that will tempt travellers of all ages.

14. This includes “gray” concrete and cost-effective “green” infrastructure, such as establishing mangroves, wetland buffers and coastal restoration.

15. The crabs were also found to play a crucial role for carbon sequestration in mangroves through aeration of the soils.

16. Most of the port facilities are less than three decades old and some are built on reclaimed mangroves and wetlands.

17. Boatbill lives in mangroves, freshwater marshes, wooded swamps, shores of lakes and rivers, ponds and streams in wet forest

18. In particular, mangroves are the nurseries for huge numbers of tropical fish, which as adults live in the open sea.

19. A 100-meter belt of mangroves, for example, can reduce wave height by up to 66% and lower peak water levels during floods.

20. 12 Sea-level rise also threatens coastal wetlands, including salt marsh habitats and mangroves, adding to threats to these ecologically valuable areas by human actions.

21. The City Botanic Gardens were inundated, leading to a new colony of mangroves forming in the City Reach of the Brisbane River.

22. Mangrove forests, tropical evergreen coastal mudflats on the unique plant communities, most of its species, belong to Rhizophoraceae, ecology, and its called: mangroves.

23. The reason for this is that mangroves offer products that can be used for cooking, building houses and fodder, as well as fish, and other food items.

24. British soldiers encircled the swampland through which the Japanese were retreating, condemning the Japanese to a night in the mangroves, which were home to thousands of saltwater crocodiles.

25. The study found that “Astonishingly high” levels of pollution remained in Bodo’s mangroves and creeks years after the spill, endangering the community, wrote Kay Holtzmann, the former

26. And the mangroves were providing wood and honey and leaves for the animals, so that they could produce milk and whatnot, like we had in the Biosphere.

27. This is a photo of a lemon shark pup, and it shows these animals where they live for the first two to three years of their lives in these protective mangroves.

28. ‘The map units in the order 3 survey area are composed of soil associations, some Consociations and some complexes.’ ‘Typically mangroves display a zonation or succession of forests, with each zone being dominated by one of the Consociations.’

29. Colombia's fourth-largest city, the hardworking port town of Barranquilla is located on the delta of the massive Río Magdalena and laid out in a tangled ribbon along mangroves and the Caribbean Sea, sweltering and hustling in …

30. There are six species of Caiman that can be found in Central and South America: in Puerto Rico, Cuba, Brazil, Ecuador, Peru, Columbia, French Guyana…Caimans live in swamps, flooded savannas, mangroves, slowly moving rivers and lakes

31. Randomly sampled surface-sterilized whole root segments of four mangrove plant species, Acanthus ilicifolius, Avicennia officinalis, Rhizophora mucronata, and Sonneratia caseolaris from the mangroves of Udyavara (Karnataka) on the west coast of India, were characterized for fungal communities by direct plating, damp chamber, and bubbling chamber incubation methods.

32. One of them is devoted to African cichlids, two of them are Asian, one represents the seashore with mangroves and is inhabited by crayfish, in the second one labyrinth fish prevail and the last three are from the Americas (Dutch with tetras) ‘black Amazon’ inhabited by angelfish and the last one is dominated by Amazon arowanas and freshwater stingrays.

33. " Boa adds a culinary destination to the Promenade's luxury living and shopping experience, all with spectacular views of the mangroves and beyond." US eatery Boa Steakhouse opens in Abu Dhabi The other snakes taken were a dwarf fusion Boa , a jungle high yellow carpet python, a Nicaraguan dwarf Boa , a salmon hypo Boa and a salmon jungle high