Grey Mangrove |
Flowers on a Grey Mangrove
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Enjoying the mangroves |
Underside of a mangrove leaf, showing excreted salt |
Mangrove leaves have a waxy surface |
Pneumatophores |
Mangroves with samphire in the foreground |
Mangrove die-back |
Industry and mangroves |
Red mangroves |
Avicennia marina can be up to 100 years old |
Different trees live in diiferent parts of the
estuary depending on their salt tolerance |
Pneumatophores provide a great surface area for
algal
growth which in turn provides food for herbivores |
Pneumatophores bind the mud
and provide bank stability
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Beadweed Sarcocornia quinqueflora |
Large egret Egretta alba |
Green back crab Sesarma erythrodactyla |
Semaphore crab Heloecious cordifromis |
Dusty flathead |
Oysters and white tube worms filter feeding
at the mouth of the estuary |
Australian pelican Pelecanus conspicillatus |
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| Mangrove images courtesy Kerrie Trees, Adventure Education www.adventureeducation.edu.au and Verity Bone, DEH. |
