Wetland soil core taken from Todd Gulch Fen at 10,000 feet in the Colorado Rockies. ... Saltwater mangrove forest along the coast of the Biosphere Reserve in Sian Ka’an, Mexico.

Mangrove swamps have been called the earth’s most important ecosystem, because they form a bristling wall that stabilizes the land’s edge and protects shorelines from hurricanes and erosion ...

If water, salty or fresh, is present on top of or just below the soil, it’s a wetland. You’ll know you’re in a wetland when your shoe prints turn muddy and wet. They make up just 6 percent ...

In this country alone, wetland ecosystems can take almost uncountable forms — tidal wetlands like salt marshes, mangrove swamps and mud flats; desert wetlands like playas and basins; prairie ...

The ecological importance of mangrove swamps is well understood. The Web site of UNESCO, which marks July 26 as the International Day for the Conservation of the Mangrove Ecosystem, describes these ...

From a mangrove tree, he snaps off a thing that looks like a spear. It's a propagule , basically, an already germinated seed that drops from the mother tree and lodges into the muddy, wet soil below.

The Can Gio mangrove forest grew out of a comparatively recent brackish swamp with soil foundations created by the Saigon and Dong Nai Rivers. The development of the mangrove forest is dependent on ...