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Mangrove Swamps

Mangrove Swamps. By Treis and Erica . Location . Florida Everglades, Kenya, Tanzania and Madagascar . Location. Florida Everglades, Kenya, Madagascar, Tanzania all have major Mangrove swamps . Climate .

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Mangrove Swamps

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  1. Mangrove Swamps By Treis and Erica

  2. Location Florida Everglades, Kenya, Tanzania and Madagascar

  3. Location • Florida Everglades, Kenya, Madagascar, Tanzania all have major Mangrove swamps

  4. Climate • Typically show up in areas where the tempeture does not drop below 66 degrees, and have high amounts of annual precipitation.

  5. Major Traits • Mangroves are various kinds of trees up to medium height and shrubs that grow in saline coastal sediment habitats in the tropics and subtropics . • Usually warm, coastal areas, with where sediments collect because of movement from waves.

  6. Major Plant life • Mangrove trees.

  7. Animal life • Crocodiles, sand hill crane, Pythons, Mudskippers, Crabs, Honeyeaters, flying foxes.

  8. Food Chain

  9. Other cool stuff • Over the past 25 years, 20 percent of the world’s mangroves have been destroyed. • Mangroves act as coastal protection. • Create material needed for reefs to develop • The Mangrove trees create their own fresh water from sea water. • What we have left today is 50 percent of the natural Mangrove forests, quite a bit has been destroyed.

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