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GET IT ON G E T I T O N Right now, we’re seeing a lot of salt marsh mosquitoes, which come from local mangrove swamps. They can be more aggressive than other breeds, but experts are doing what ...
Sure enough, a few hundred yards past the ranger station she found small mangrove shrubs dotting the salt marsh. The following morning she drove another 40 miles north toward St. Augustine, ...
The researchers found that compact “scrub” mangroves, dominated by Rhizophora mangle, kept absorbing about 294 grams of ...
What’s more, as mangroves — bushy, salt-tolerant trees that grow in brackish waters — crowd out salt marshes and plant firmer roots farther north, they’ll better guard against Florida’s ...
The Sunshine State may excel in its theme park offerings, but it also has a pretty robust array of state parks to choose from ...
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NEW SMYRNA BEACH — Since its restoration in 2014, the Marine Discovery Center's salt marsh has not only seen its plant life flourish, it has also shown how powerful its natural shoreline defense ...
In some cases, mangroves have shaded out salt marsh plants that some fish, shrimp, whooping cranes and other species rely on. And even though the freeze killed off many mangroves along the Texas ...
Dead mangroves line a salt marsh near Aransas Pass on April 18, 2024. Credit: Angela Piazza for The Texas Tribune. Anna Armitage, a professor at Texas A&M University at Galveston and a leading ...
"Mangroves, expanding with the warming climate, are re-shaping the Texas coast" was first published by The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan media organization that informs Texans — and ...
Dead mangroves line a salt marsh near Aransas Pass on April 18, 2024. Credit: Angela Piazza for The Texas Tribune. Anna Armitage, a professor at Texas A&M University at Galveston and a leading ...
Dead mangroves line a salt marsh near Aransas Pass on April 18, 2024. Credit: Angela Piazza for The Texas Tribune. Anna Armitage, a professor at Texas A&M University at Galveston and a leading ...