When tackling extreme environments, mangroves don't play by the same rules as most other plants.
Tag - mangroves
Fi Gennu
Why are there no Arctic mangroves?
Research from Japan reveals that mangroves can't cope with cold feet.
The mangroves the ice left behind
In the waters of a river in Tabasco grows a population of red mangrove: a lost world whose origins can be traced back to the last glaciation.
Agustín Ávila-Casanueva
Many mangrove restorations fail. Is there a better way?
These carbon-hoarding, coastline-protecting forests are sponges for greenhouse gases. Doing plantings right and involving local communities are key to saving them.
Katarina Zimmer
When speed is a problem in mangrove restoration
Rapid restoration isn't always the best restoration, when the restoring species is invasive.
Dale Maylea
Mutualistic relationship between mangrove plants and diazotrophs
Trees need nitrogen. When they shed leaves with all the nitrogen in them it would be a big loss, were it not for the army of creepy-crawlies that recycle the leaves back into the soil. Life is tougher for mangroves. At...
Root hairs to halt global warming
Can plants help fight global warming? Nigel Chaffey looks to the roots.
Nigel Chaffey
When seas rise rapidly
We think of sea-level rise as a long-term threat, but sometimes the change is catastrophically quick, and it’s the recovery that is long-term.
Alun Salt
Biomechanics of rhizophores in Rhizophora mangroves
Rhizophora mangle supports a thinner stem of higher mechanical resistance when compared to Avicennia germinans, a co-existing mangrove lacking rhizophores.
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