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Physical and Biological Control of Mangrove Pore Water Chemistry

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Mangrove swamps comprise the largest fraction of tropical and subtropical intertidal wetlands, occupying over 20 million hectares worldwide (Chapman, 1976; McVey and May, 1987). Their importance as the basis of detrital food webs and as protected habitat for juvenile fish and shellfish has been well documented (Odum and Heald, 1972; Rodelli, Gearing, Gearing, Marshall and Sasekumar, 1984).

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Carlson, P.R., Yarbro, L.A. (1988). Physical and Biological Control of Mangrove Pore Water Chemistry. In: The Ecology and Management of Wetlands. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-8378-9_10

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