Mangroves Flashcards
What are Red Mangrove Scientific name?
Rhizophora mangle
Where do red mangroves grow?
They mostly grow in places that are permanently wet and salty
What are Red mangroves identifying feature?
High Prop Roots
What are Black Mangroves Scientific Name?
Avicennia Germinas
Where do Black Mangroves Grow?
In heavy, black, oxygen poor soils and salty
What are Black mangroves Identifying features?
Pneumatophores
What are Pneumatophores?
They are thin vertically projects that grow from black mangroves roots underground and extent out wards around the tree
What are White Mangroves scientific name?
Laguncularia racemosa
Where do White mangrove grow?
They grow away from the sea they grow in less salty waters
What are Button wood scientific name?
Corncarpus erectus
Where do button wood grow?
Grows father inland or an isolated patches of rock or sand beside the sea where conditions are direr
What is a Abiotic?
It is a non-living condition or thing
What are the five abiotic factors that affect mangroves?
Salinity, temperature, flooding,light and Nutrients
Salinity
This ability to exclude salts occur through filtration at the surface of the roof, root membranes prevents salt from entering and water to pass through this is effective at removing majority of salt from seawater
Flooding
Some mangroves grow pencil-like roots that stick out of the dense, wet ground the snorkels, these breathing tubes pneumatophores, allows mangroves to cope with flooding by the tides
Pneumatophores take in oxygen from
The airrunless they’re clogged or submerged for too long
Temperature
Extreme temperature can limit plants process and can cause death to parts or all parts of the plants. Mangroves turn there leaves to avoid damage from the heat
Light
Too much light or not enough light can effect plants process and cause temperature fluctuations
What is biotic?
It is a living component of an ecosystem
What are the two main biotic factors that affects mangroves?
Animals- Mangrove crab, Saltwater crocodile, Sea Snake, Snowy Egret
Plant
The importants of the mangrove ecosystem.
Protects shoreline from damaging storms, hurricane winds, flooding and waves
Prevents erosion by stabilizing sediments with there tangled root system
Maintains water quality and clarity, filtering pollutions and trapping sediments originating from land
Serves as valuable nursery area for fish, spiny lobsters
Supports threatened and endangered species
What are the natural and manmade threats to the mangroves ecosystem?
Urban development Pollution Storms Climate Change Invasive Species
