Mangrove Flashcards
Aerobic
With oxygen
Anaerobic
Without oxygen
Buffer zone
Leaves a corridor along the beach that protects buildings from winds, waves and tides and allows animals to migrate
Caye
Island
Coppicing
Resprouting from a stump
Detritus
Broken plant and animal fragments
Dredging spoils
When sediment from the ocean is dumped on mangrove roots and smothers them
Estuary
Where salt water and freshwater mix
Guano
Bird droppings
Ghost fishing
When nets keep on killing long after they have been lost
Hydrochory
Dispersal of seeds by water
Intertidal zone
Area between low and high tide
Natural resources
Made by nature
Nutrients
Nitrates and phosphates used for growth by plants
Persistent colonizer
Trees that come back even after they have been cut down
Pnuematophores
Breathing roots used by mangroves to bring air to their roots
Propagules
Germinated seeds that form a root while still on the tree
Sediment
Soil, dirt, coral, sand, particulate matter that makes up various substrates
Spawn
To reproduce, breed or lay eggs
Tannin
Gives the red mangrove it’s color, used to tan hides
Vivipary
The process by which a mangrove seed germinates while still on the tree
