First-of-its-kind freshwater mangroves discovered in Brazil’s Amazon Delta

Mongabay
Jul 20, 2022, 3:13 pm132 pts
On an expedition in the Amazon River Delta, researchers found mangroves growing in water with little to no salinity and overlapping with freshwater forested wetlands — a phenomenon never before documented in deltas or coastal mangroves anywhere else in the world. Mangroves are hardy trees and shrubs that have…

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