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    Mangroves are salt-tolerant trees and shrubs found in tropical and subtropical coastal regions. They provide important ecosystem services such as protecting coastlines from erosion and filtering pollutants. Mangroves support a wide variety of terrestrial and aquatic species by providing habitat and nurseries for fish and shellfish. However, mangrove populations have declined due to coastal development and changing land use. Conservation efforts aim to protect mangrove ecosystems and their connections to seagrass beds and coral reefs to preserve resident fish species.

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    Mangroves are salt-tolerant trees and shrubs found in tropical and subtropical coastal regions. They provide important ecosystem services such as protecting coastlines from erosion and filtering pollutants. Mangroves support a wide variety of terrestrial and aquatic species by providing habitat and nurseries for fish and shellfish. However, mangrove populations have declined due to coastal development and changing land use. Conservation efforts aim to protect mangrove ecosystems and their connections to seagrass beds and coral reefs to preserve resident fish species.

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    Mangroves are salt-tolerant trees and shrubs found in tropical and subtropical coastal regions. They provide important ecosystem services such as protecting coastlines from erosion and filtering pollutants. Mangroves support a wide variety of terrestrial and aquatic species by providing habitat and nurseries for fish and shellfish. However, mangrove populations have declined due to coastal development and changing land use. Conservation efforts aim to protect mangrove ecosystems and their connections to seagrass beds and coral reefs to preserve resident fish species.

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    Mangroves are salt-tolerant trees and shrubs found in tropical and subtropical coastal regions. They provide important ecosystem services such as protecting coastlines from erosion and filtering pollutants. Mangroves support a wide variety of terrestrial and aquatic species by providing habitat and nurseries for fish and shellfish. However, mangrove populations have declined due to coastal development and changing land use. Conservation efforts aim to protect mangrove ecosystems and their connections to seagrass beds and coral reefs to preserve resident fish species.

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    • Mangroves are vital to the coastal environments in which they live.
    They act as a physical barrier between marine and terrestrial
    ecosystems, protecting shorelines from harmful winds, waves, and
    floods. Mangrove thickets enhance water quality by filtering
    pollutants and retaining sediments from the land, and they also help
    to prevent coastal erosion. Ecologically, they support a wide range of
    terrestrial creatures, and many species of coastal and offshore fish
    and shellfish rely only on mangroves for breeding, spawning, and
    hatching. Mangroves are frequently among the first species to
    colonise flooded mud and sandbanks due to their high salt tolerance,
    but increased coastal development and changing land use have
    resulted in a fall in worldwide populations. Several species have
    been designated as vulnerable or endangered on the International
    Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of Threatened
    Species.
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    • Mangroves are salt-tolerant plants and shrubs that have thrived in tropical and
    subtropical intertidal settings such as protected coastlines, estuaries, and
    mudflats. Mangroves are found in 123 countries throughout the world, totaling
    15.2 million hectares (1 percent of tropical forests). More than 100 million people
    live within 10 kilometres of huge mangrove forests in Asia (39.0 percent), Africa
    (21.0 percent), North and Central America (15.0 percent), South America (12.6
    percent), and Oceania (12.4 percent). 1 There are roughly 70 species of mangrove
    plants in 18 families, including Rhizophoraceae and Avicenniaceae. With
    considerable salinity fluctuation and muddy anaerobic soils, mangroves are
    especially suited to marine and estuarine settings. They have unusual root
    systems known as 'aerial roots,' which carry gas in anaerobic sediments and Their
    trunks are supported in soft muddy sediments. The aerial roots of different
    species have different shapes, such as 'prop roots' in Rhizophora spp. and
    'pneumatophores' in Avicennia spp. Mangroves' root systems also keep salt out,
    despite the fact that some species have salt glands on their leaves.
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    • Fish are prolific and diverse marine components in mangrove
    ecosystems, with an estimated 600 species occurring in Indo West
    Pacific mangrove zones, including Mugilidae, Ambassidae, Lutjanidae,
    Gerridae, and Gobiidae. Fish occurring in mangrove estuaries are
    often classified into one of two groups:Marine migrant fish that
    spawn at sea and enter estuaries as juveniles (often in large
    numbers), such as the blacktail snapper Lutjanus fulvus and silver
    grunt Pomadasys argenteus, some of which use mangrove areas as
    nurseries; and estuarine resident fish, such as the halfbeak
    Zenarchopterus dunckeri, that complete their life cycle within the
    estuarine environment.
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    • Conservation efforts should thus safeguard linked mangrove-seagrass-
    coral reef corridors for fish species that require a connection to their
    ecosystem to complete their life cycles. Furthermore, a recent study
    found that the genetic structure of mangrove resident fish differed
    between islands within an archipelago,7 implying that conservation
    on a small spatial scale (i.e., at each island) is required to avoid local
    extinction of resident fish and to maintain not only species diversity
    but also the genetic diversity of these ecosystems.

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