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Mangroves are salt tolerant marshy vegetation found mainly along the tropical and subtropical intertidal regions of the world comprising trees and shrubs, adapted to thrive in shallow, muddy, salt and brackish waters. The canals, creeks and the estuarine environment provide home for a wide variety of aquatic fauna and the arid zone forms the nesting grounds for aquatic birds. Mangroves constitute the breeding and nursery grounds for the larvae and juveniles of commercially important species of prawns, fishes and molluscs. The litterfall supports a host of detritivorous animals such as amphipods, mysids, harpacticoids, molluscs, crabs, larval prawns and fishes. Production of surplus quantities of plant detritus, dissolved organic matter, recycling of nutrients, provision of adequate habitats for aquaculture, larval recruitment of coastal fisheries stock make the mangrove ecosystem a unique environment of great ecological value.
| Item Type: | Articles |
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| Keywords: | Mangroves, Mangrove Ecosystems, Kerala, India, Estuaries |
| Subjects: | Biodiversity |
| Depositing User: | Varsha V icsf |
| Date Deposited: | 11 Jun 2022 06:26 |
| Last Modified: | 11 Jun 2022 06:26 |
| URI: | http://icsfarchives.net/id/eprint/11601 |
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