The Botany of MangrovesMangroves are remarkable tropical plants that grow with their roots partly or wholly submerged in sea water. They make tidal forests in the tropics, and these forests, referred to as "mangal," straddle the abrupt interphase between sea and land. They are economically important because they are a source of timber (used mainly as firewood). Mangroves also protect shorelines from wave damage and provide a nursery for many commercial fishes. To the scientist they offer an interesting opportunity to study organisms that adapt to both marine and terrestrial environments. The Botany of Mangroves is a concise, descriptive overview of mangrove plants, with emphasis on the biology of individual species. |
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Page 7 - Where this sort of tree grows it is impossible to march by reason of these stakes, which grow so mixed one among another that I have, when forced to go through them, gone half a mile and never set my foot on the ground, stepping from root to root.
Page x - The treatment of the strict mangrove departs from the usual systematic description found in a standard flora in its more extended consideration of the dynamics and biological aspects of plant behavior: growth, reproduction, and morphological adaptation.
Page x - A defines mangroves and refers to associated communities; briefly summarizes geographical, lloristic, architectural, morphological, reproductive, and anatomical features of mangroves; and considers some of the physiological specializations that allow mangroves to grow in sea water subject to tidal influences and usually in unstable and often anaerobic substrates.
Page 402 - Duke, NC 1988. An endemic mangrove species Avicennia Integra sp. nov. (Avicenniaceae) in Northern Australia.
Page x - The only discussion of the mangrove fauna focuses on those animals that interact with mangrove plants as predators or pollinators. The commercial value of mangroves is assessed, emphasizing the biological features of mangrove plants and the peculiarities of mangals that relate to economic exploitation.
Page 402 - Patrones regionales en la estructura y composición floristica de los manglares de la Costa Pacifica de Costa Rica. Rev Biol Trop 33:25-37 Jones DS, Morgan GJ (1994) A field guide to crustaceans of Australian waters.
Page 402 - Duke, NC (1991). A systematic revision of the mangrove genus Avicennia (Avicenniaceae) in Australasia. Australian Systematic Botany, 4, 299-324.
Page 174 - Corolla zygomorphic, at least 3 cm long with a short tube closed by basal hairs; abaxial lip broadly 3-lobed to entire, adaxial lobes absent. Stamens 4, subequal, with thick hairy connectives, anthers medifixed, each with 2 cells, aggregated around the style.
Page 403 - Lacerda LD, Carvalho CEV, Tanizaki KF Ovalle ARC, Rezende CE (1993) The biogeochemistry and trace metals distribution of mangrove rhizospheres. Biotropica 25:252-257...
Page 161 - This lowered salt concentration, whatever its origin, is interpreted as a mechanism to "protect" the embryo from the deleterious effects of high salt concentrations until maturity.
References to this book
The Tropical Rain Forest: An Ecological Study P. W. Richards,R. P. D. Walsh No preview available - 1996 |
Bibliographic information
| Title | The Botany of Mangroves Cambridge Tropical Biology Series |
| Authors | P. B. Tomlinson, Philip Barry Tomlinson |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press, 1994 |
| ISBN | 052146675X, 9780521466752 |
| Length | 419 pages |
| Subjects | › › Science / Life Sciences / Botany |
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