- Nursery: Mangroves provide a Nursery and safe home for baby fish and a variety of other marine animals.
- Nutrients: What falls from the mangroves is called leaf liter, that breaks down into nutrients and is the begins the basic food chain.
- Sediment: Mangroves hold the soil down stabilizing the sediment on the shoreline
- Toxins: Mangroves filter toxins and nutrients.
- Buffer System: Mangroves act as a buffer system to the land, lessening the strength of waves caused by storms
- Ecosystem Corridor: Provides habitat and a connecting zone in the ecosystem
1.http://mit.whoi.edu/cms/images/oceanus/mangrove-600_81252.jpg
2.http://www.nhmi.org/mangroves/pic/w59.jpg
3. http://www.ozcoasts.gov.au/conceptual_mods/processes/images/sediment_process.jpg
4.http://soilquality.org/images/filtering.gif
5.http://ncp-dev.stanford.edu/~dataportal/invest-releases/documentation/current_release/_images/BeachProfile.png
6.http://www.rivercare.org/local/upload/ckresized/73/corridor_map.jpg
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