https://padlet.com/vals3680/9hs9ssypr670 Made with a wink and a smile en-us 2017-09-27 16:54:56 UTC 2026-01-01 08:35:53 UTC hello@padlet.com vals3680 https://padlet.com/vals3680/9hs9ssypr670/wish/191770031 A mangrove is a shrub or a small tree that grows in coastal saline or brackish water. The term is also used for tropical coastal vegetation consisting of such species . These mangroves occur worldwide in the tropics or subtropics, mainly between latitudes of 25 degrees N and 25 degrees S. 
     The mangroves food web is not really complicated the mangrove feeds off of the sun, the bacteria and algae feed off of the sun and mangrove,the mangrove snail  feeds off of the bacteria and algae/mangrove, the fish feeds off of the bacteria algae,prawn and worms, the crab feeds off of the mangrove, the eel feeds off of the worms,fish,prawn and crab, the water bird feeds off of the mangrove snail, the crab, the eel, the worms and the fish, the worms feed off of the leaf litter and the bacteria and algae from decomposing animal carcasses. All those that were listed are the organisms found around or in the mangroves they all produce off of each other or some produce off of the mangrove the process of all this consuming and producing and decomposing is pretty cool once you learn about it and pay attention too it. Barnacles,oysters,mussels,sponges,worms,snails and small fish all live around the roots of the mangrove. The mangroves water contains crabs,jellyfish,and juvenile snappers,jacks,red drums and sea trout all live in the cool part at the bottom of the mangrove. The mangroves are fragile complex and dynamic ecosystem and are dependent on the inter-related, environment both, biotic and abiotic factors its climatic factors are rainfall and wind. Threats to the mangrove are bad they are threatening to cut mangrove forests down because their "unproductive" and "smelly" but they protect the organisms that live there they give them food and let them reproduce they also protect them from strong hurricane winds. Mangroves have become endangered because of people cutting them down but little do they know their cutting down the most important reproductive system in the world.]]> 2017-09-27 16:56:48 UTC https://padlet.com/vals3680/9hs9ssypr670/wish/191770031