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Mangrove Forest, Biomes

Red mangrove is the salt-tolerant, shoreline-fringing tree that defines the mangrove forest biome across much of the Americas, West Africa and parts of the Pacific.

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Mangroves (NOAA Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary)
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The red mangroves can withstand the harshest of conditions, often growing along the edges of the shoreline.
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Encyclopaedia Britannica
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