Neat News 2021-289 (added 2021-10-16)
Mangroves in Yucatan peninsula
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| Mangroves can normally grow only at the coast. However, there is an exception on the Yucatan peninsula in the north of Guatemala. A new study found that a mangrove forest has existed for some 120000 years and started as a usual coastal forest, but when the sea level dropped it managed to adapt and is now 170 kilometres away from the sea. related: #mangrove |
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