3D reconstruction of mangrove tree phyllotaxis from digitized plants yields novel data.
Tag - mangrove
Rachel Shekar
Climate change threatens the first line of defence against coastal storms
When the storms come in, plants could help secure natural defences. But climate change is giving them problems of their own.
Fi Gennu
It’s World Wetland Day
Today, lakes, rivers, underground aquifers, swamps, marshes, wet grasslands, peatlands, oases, estuaries, deltas, tidal flats, mangroves, coral reefs, as well as fish ponds, rice paddies, reservoirs and salt pans and...
Alun Salt![Image: Klomp et al., Biology Letters 10: 20140743, 2014. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2014.0776]](https://i0.wp.com/botany.one/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/03-July-SIZED-centre-over-column.jpg?resize=585%2C283&ssl=1)
Looks like leaf-like lizards live longer
Draco cornutus lizards live longer thanks to leaf-like colouration and mimicry.
Nigel Chaffey
Growth responses of the mangrove Avicennia marina to salinity
Avicennia marina is an obligate halophyte, requiring saline conditions for development.
annbot
Patchy radial increment in the mangrove Avicennia
Robert et al. monitor stem variations in A. marina trees in a natural mangrove forest over the course of one year, and find that patchiness occurs in both the radial growth and the shrinkage and swelling patterns of the...
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