===Mangroves===
Mangroves are trees and shrubs that grow in saline coastal habitats in the tropics and subtropics – mainly between latitudes 25° N and 25° S. The saline conditions tolerated by various species range from brackish water, through pure seawater (30 to 40 ppt), to water of over twice the salinity of ocean seawater, where the salt becomes concentrated by evaporation (up to 90 ppt).
There are many species of trees and shrubs adapted to saline conditions. Not all are closely related, and the term "mangrove" may be used for all of them, or more narrowly only for the mangrove family of plants, the Rhizophoraceae, or even more specifically just for mangrove trees of the genus Rhizophora.
Mangroves form a characteristic saline woodland or shrubland habitat, called mangrove swamp, mangrove forest, mangrove or mangal. Mangals are found in depositional coastal environments where fine sediments (often with high organic content) collect in areas protected from high energy wave action. They occur both in estuaries and along open coastlines. Mangroves dominate three quarters of tropical coastlines.
i am glad that you took many interesting photographs for your blog, and took some effort to link up information coherently with the photographs. However, avoid copying down the information word for word - it's plagarism! - a serious offence punishable by law! ... you are really lucky to see the crocodile (a really rare sight) and it suspect what you saw was an oriental pied hornbill (again, a rare sight at buloh, coz mangroves are not it's natural habitat).
ReplyDeletewe did not copy word for word we.we changed some of the. "we' means Muhammed and Zachary ONLY.Niko and Roseling NEVER helped us.
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