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Title: Caribbean Mangrove Swamps
By: Klaus Rutzler & Ilka C. Feller
Title: Caribbean Mangrove Swamps
By: Klaus Rutzler & Ilka C. Feller
Major Ideas, Concepts, and Key Points:
- These plants can also sprout aerial roots that permit the exchange of gas for aerobic respiration.
- This adaptation allows the trees to survive despite being firmly rooted in oxygen-deprived intertidal soils.
-Mangroves are also limited by a need for rather balmy conditions.
-Mangrove swamps typically fall within one of two broad categories of classification: mainland or oceanic island. The former group includes those communities that border continental coasts and are thus permanently sandwiched between salty ocean water and freshwater carried by streams from the interior.
- The distribution of such scattered mangrove islands among the patches of reef within the wide lagoon suggested to us that the first trees at Twin Cays may have settled on isolated coral clusters.
-The mangrove swamp at Twin Cays has established itself some 7,000 years ago and has since built a foundation of seven meters of peaty soil as it reacted rising sea level
-The topography of Twin Cays reflects several thousand years of natural history and provides a testament to the power of the countless storms and hurricanes that have buffeted this tiny forest.
- At the bends in the dead-end extension lie deep cuts that have not yet filled with peat or sediment.
-Naturalists have traditionally placed a great deal of emphasis on the lateral transition of mainland mangrove forests, from the near-oceanic realm of the coast, through the estuarine environment of river mouths, and upstream into regions of freshwater—the domain of the rain forest
-Living within the upper forest levels at Twin Cays are countless insects, lizards, snakes and birds.
-Only a few types are active during the day. Most insect species avoid the sun’s rays by feeding at night or by living entirely within plants.
-The richness of life contained within the mangrove forest at Twin Cays raises immediate concern for the risk to biodiversity that develops as such delicate environments are lost to human hands.
Summary:
Mangrove tress grow in coastal swamps that are flooded at a high tide which needs a warm environment to live in.
But then their is also different varieties of these trees that can survive in different conditions. The mangrove swamps founded in Twin Cays has established itself for some 7,000 years ago as well as building a foundation of seven meters of peaty soil whom reach rising sea level. In Twin Cay there is many organisms mostly insects like lizards, snakes, birds, and many more but they are being affected because humans are starting to cut down mangroves.
Opinion:
Before this article, I had no clue what mangroves was. I thought it was somewhat interesting and learned that these mangrove trees are slowing down and not going as much anymore, this will affect many organisms in the forest because they need these trees for many reasons. We are cutting too much of these trees without realizing we are harming the environment little by little just like the Lorax.
- These plants can also sprout aerial roots that permit the exchange of gas for aerobic respiration.
- This adaptation allows the trees to survive despite being firmly rooted in oxygen-deprived intertidal soils.
-Mangroves are also limited by a need for rather balmy conditions.
-Mangrove swamps typically fall within one of two broad categories of classification: mainland or oceanic island. The former group includes those communities that border continental coasts and are thus permanently sandwiched between salty ocean water and freshwater carried by streams from the interior.
- The distribution of such scattered mangrove islands among the patches of reef within the wide lagoon suggested to us that the first trees at Twin Cays may have settled on isolated coral clusters.
-The mangrove swamp at Twin Cays has established itself some 7,000 years ago and has since built a foundation of seven meters of peaty soil as it reacted rising sea level
-The topography of Twin Cays reflects several thousand years of natural history and provides a testament to the power of the countless storms and hurricanes that have buffeted this tiny forest.
- At the bends in the dead-end extension lie deep cuts that have not yet filled with peat or sediment.
-Naturalists have traditionally placed a great deal of emphasis on the lateral transition of mainland mangrove forests, from the near-oceanic realm of the coast, through the estuarine environment of river mouths, and upstream into regions of freshwater—the domain of the rain forest
-Living within the upper forest levels at Twin Cays are countless insects, lizards, snakes and birds.
-Only a few types are active during the day. Most insect species avoid the sun’s rays by feeding at night or by living entirely within plants.
-The richness of life contained within the mangrove forest at Twin Cays raises immediate concern for the risk to biodiversity that develops as such delicate environments are lost to human hands.
Summary:
Mangrove tress grow in coastal swamps that are flooded at a high tide which needs a warm environment to live in.
But then their is also different varieties of these trees that can survive in different conditions. The mangrove swamps founded in Twin Cays has established itself for some 7,000 years ago as well as building a foundation of seven meters of peaty soil whom reach rising sea level. In Twin Cay there is many organisms mostly insects like lizards, snakes, birds, and many more but they are being affected because humans are starting to cut down mangroves.
Opinion:
Before this article, I had no clue what mangroves was. I thought it was somewhat interesting and learned that these mangrove trees are slowing down and not going as much anymore, this will affect many organisms in the forest because they need these trees for many reasons. We are cutting too much of these trees without realizing we are harming the environment little by little just like the Lorax.