These carbon-hoarding, coastline-protecting forests are sponges for greenhouse gases. Doing plantings right and involving local communities are key to saving them.
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...
Rhizophora mangle supports a thinner stem of higher mechanical resistance when compared to Avicennia germinans, a co-existing mangrove lacking rhizophores.