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Tropical Forests. V. Mangroves

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Mangroves are a characteristic and important type of tropical and subtropical forests, with a unique capacity to tolerate large short-term changes of salinity. The name comes from the Spanish “mangle” for Rhizophora, a mangrove genus, and the English “grove”. Mangroves may also be considered as “tide-forests”, since their ecology is determined primarily by the tides at the three typical sites where they occur (Fig. 7.1):

• coastal mangroves,

• estuarine mangroves and

• coral mangroves, i.e. mangroves along the coastlines, in river estuaries and around coral reefs and coral islands.

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