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Southern Atlantic Brazilian mangroves

Biome

Mangroves

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Règne biogéographique

Neotropic

Île de mangrove et berges bordées de mangrove dans l'estuaire de Mangue Seco, Bahia, Brésil.

Photo de la région - Anselmo Garrido / Wikimedia Commons - CC BY 2.0; attribution required.

Southern Atlantic Brazilian mangroves

Les mangroves de l'Atlantique Sud brésilien forment une chaîne de forêts tidales estuariennes et saumâtres disséminées le long de la côte de l'Atlantique Sud du Brésil, s'étendant du littoral du sud-est, près de l'estuaire du Paraíba do Sul, vers le sud jusqu'à Santa Catarina, et incluant les côtes de Bahia et d'Espírito Santo. La canopée est constituée du trio classique de la mangrove atlantique : le palétuvier rouge (Rhizophora mangle), le palétuvier noir (Avicennia) et le palétuvier blanc (Laguncularia racemosa), des arbres qui s'enracinent dans les sédiments tidaux mouvants et atteignent environ neuf à vingt mètres de haut. Le cadre est tropical et humide, avec des saisons pluvieuses et sèches qui varient d'un tronçon de côte à l'autre. Ces forêts servent de nurseries aux poissons, crabes, crevettes et mollusques, accueillent des tortues marines et le lamantin des Caraïbes, et offrent une halte migratoire aux limicoles, tout en subissant la pression de l'expansion urbaine, de la coupe du bois et de la pollution industrielle. Pour les jardiniers du littoral, la leçon est plus écologique qu'ornementale : les palétuviers sont des arbres de zones humides spécialisés et tolérants au sel qui stabilisent les rivages, et non des plantes de bordure pour massifs cultivés.

RESOLVE 616

Neotropic

3,912 sq mi

Mangroves

Type de paysage

Mangroves

Région végétale

Neotropic

Empreinte de la région

3,912 sq mi

Pression sur l'habitat

Nature Could Reach Half Protected (Dinerstein NNH 2)

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Utilisez ceci comme schéma général de plantation pour la région : Forêts côtières de marée d’arbres tolérants au sel, enracinés dans les estuaires et sur les rivages abrités des régions tropicales et subtropicales. Les mangroves protègent les côtes des tempêtes, stockent de grandes quantités de carbone et servent de nourriceries aux poissons et aux coquillages. Pour vos décisions de jardin, affinez selon les contraintes de lumière, d'eau, de sol et de taille adulte de votre site.

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Chenal bordé de mangroves dans le parc national de Morrocoy, au Venezuela.

RESOLVE 611 - Neotropic

Amazon-Orinoco-Southern Caribbean mangroves

The Amazon-Orinoco-Southern Caribbean mangroves form a vast coastal ecoregion in the Neotropics, fringing the Caribbean shores of Colombia and Venezuela and the Atlantic coasts of Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, and northeastern Brazil, including the Brazilian states of Amapá, Pará, and Maranhão. Shaped by the outflow of the Amazon and Orinoco rivers, its tidal wetlands are dominated by salt-tolerant mangroves such as Rhizophora racemosa and Avicennia schaueriana, alongside green buttonwood and the familiar red, white, and black mangroves. The climate is equatorial and fully humid, with year-round warmth roughly between 22 and 31 degrees Celsius and abundant rainfall averaging around 2,500 millimetres annually. These constantly flooded forests shelter rich birdlife and wildlife, from the scarlet ibis and American flamingo to giant otters, manatees, and nesting sea turtles, and the ecoregion's flagship is the critically endangered sapphire-bellied hummingbird. Though much of it remains relatively intact, mangrove stands here face mounting pressure from urbanization, pollution, and timber extraction.

RESOLVE 612 - Neotropic

Bahamian-Antillean mangroves

The Bahamian-Antillean mangroves form a Neotropical mangrove ecoregion scattered across the islands of the Caribbean and the western Atlantic, spanning jurisdictions that include Cuba, The Bahamas, Hispaniola (Haiti and the Dominican Republic), Jamaica, Puerto Rico, the Turks and Caicos, the Cayman Islands, and the US Virgin Islands. Its tidal forests are built from four characteristic salt-tolerant trees: red mangrove (Rhizophora mangle), black mangrove (Avicennia germinans), white mangrove (Laguncularia racemosa), and buttonwood (Conocarpus erectus). The climate is subtropical and strongly hurricane-exposed, with rainfall declining from the wetter northern islands toward the drier south. These shallow-water forests shelter notable wildlife, serving as habitat for West Indian manatees, marine turtles, and American flamingos, with the Northern Bahamian rock iguana recognized as the ecoregion's flagship species. Coastal tourism development and sea-level rise are leading threats, which matters to gardeners because buttonwood (Conocarpus) native here is among the region's hardiest salt- and wind-tolerant coastal plants.

RESOLVE 613 - Neotropic

Mesoamerican Gulf-Caribbean mangroves

The Mesoamerican Gulf-Caribbean mangroves form a chain of disconnected coastal wetlands along the eastern, Caribbean-facing coast of Central America, spanning Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama, from Tampico on the Gulf of Mexico south to Panama. The habitat is dominated by red mangrove (Rhizophora mangle), black mangrove (Avicennia germinans), and white mangrove (Laguncularia racemosa), often with button mangrove and associated trees such as Pterocarpus officinalis and the leather fern Acrostichum aureum. The climate is tropical savanna (Köppen Aw) with a pronounced dry season and stable year-round temperatures, and the region is shaped heavily by periodic hurricanes and other extreme weather. These mangroves are recognized as areas of high biodiversity and endemism, sheltering wildlife including Baird's tapir and the flagship hawksbill sea turtle, and roughly 57% of their collective area is under some form of official protection through national parks and biosphere reserves. Among the native associated plants is Pachira aquatica, a freshwater-swamp tree familiar to gardeners well beyond its range.

RESOLVE 614 - Neotropic

Northern Mesoamerican Pacific mangroves

The Northern Mesoamerican Pacific Coast mangroves fringe the lagoons and estuaries of northwestern Mexico, spanning the southern Baja California peninsula (Baja California Sur) and the Gulf of California coasts of Sonora and northern Sinaloa, where they form the northernmost mangroves on the Pacific Coast of North America. The forests are built from the classic neotropical mangrove quartet: red mangrove (Rhizophora mangle), white mangrove (Laguncularia racemosa), black mangrove (Avicennia germinans), and buttonwood (Conocarpus erectus). Sitting in an arid, transitional zone between tropical and temperate seas, the climate is dry with only occasional summer and winter rain, and the nutrient-poor conditions keep many stands stunted, sometimes barely a meter tall. Despite their modest stature, these mangroves are vital nurseries for oysters, crabs, juvenile fish, and invertebrate larvae and shelter birds such as the San Blas jay and purplish-backed jay. The ecoregion is classed as critical or endangered, having lost large areas to coastal development, which makes its remaining tangled, salt-tolerant thickets a conservation priority.

RESOLVE 615 - Neotropic

South American Pacific mangroves

The South American Pacific mangroves fringe the Pacific coast of Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru, threading through estuaries and river mouths along the Neotropical shoreline. Their characteristic vegetation is a mix of black, white, red, and tea mangroves, with the regionally endemic Avicennia tonduzi and Avicennia bicolor occurring here; the southernmost stands in the Virrila and Piura estuaries are made up only of black mangrove (Avicennia germinans). The climate is broadly equatorial and humid but spans a dramatic moisture gradient, from very high rainfall in the wet north to near-desert conditions in the arid Piura region of the far south. These tidal forests are exceptionally rich habitat, sustaining flagship wildlife such as the crab-eating raccoon and the critically endangered mangrove finch, alongside clams such as Anadara tuberculosa that local communities harvest. Much of the ecoregion remains under pressure from coastal conversion, and roughly 40,000 hectares of Ecuadorian mangrove were cleared for shrimp ponds in the 1980s and early 1990s before losses stabilized.

RESOLVE 617 - Neotropic

Southern Mesoamerican Pacific mangroves

The Southern Mesoamerican Pacific mangroves trace the Pacific coast of Central America, spanning Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama, with its northernmost reach along the Chiapas and Oaxaca coastal plain. These are tidal mangrove forests built from red mangrove (Rhizophora mangle), black mangrove, white mangrove (Laguncularia racemosa), and button and tea mangroves in shifting assemblages, alongside the water zapotón (Pachira aquatica), with trees reaching up to 25 meters tall. The climate is tropical but uneven across the region, ranging from wet sectors receiving roughly 2,500 to 3,000 mm of rain a year to drier coastal stretches around 1,400 to 1,600 mm with temperatures near 27 to 29 degrees Celsius. The ecoregion shelters notable wildlife including jaguars, tapirs, and crocodiles, and is home to two endemic, endangered birds, the mangrove hummingbird and the yellow-billed cotinga, with a large area protected in Costa Rica by Corcovado National Park. For gardeners, the native Pachira aquatica is widely grown elsewhere as the ornamental "money tree."

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Brazil

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Southern Atlantic Brazilian mangroves educator packet

Les mangroves de l'Atlantique Sud brésilien forment une chaîne de forêts tidales estuariennes et saumâtres disséminées le long de la côte de l'Atlantique Sud du Brésil, s'étendant du littoral du sud-est, près de l'estuaire du Paraíba do Sul, vers le sud jusqu'à Santa Catarina, et incluant les côtes de Bahia et d'Espírito Santo. La canopée est constituée du trio classique de la mangrove atlantique : le palétuvier rouge (Rhizophora mangle), le palétuvier noir (Avicennia) et le palétuvier blanc (Laguncularia racemosa), des arbres qui s'enracinent dans les sédiments tidaux mouvants et atteignent environ neuf à vingt mètres de haut. Le cadre est tropical et humide, avec des saisons pluvieuses et sèches qui varient d'un tronçon de côte à l'autre. Ces forêts servent de nurseries aux poissons, crabes, crevettes et mollusques, accueillent des tortues marines et le lamantin des Caraïbes, et offrent une halte migratoire aux limicoles, tout en subissant la pression de l'expansion urbaine, de la coupe du bois et de la pollution industrielle. Pour les jardiniers du littoral, la leçon est plus écologique qu'ornementale : les palétuviers sont des arbres de zones humides spécialisés et tolérants au sel qui stabilisent les rivages, et non des plantes de bordure pour massifs cultivés.

Realm

Neotropic

Dominant biome

Mangroves

Approximate area

3,912 square miles

States / provinces

Not recorded

Climate descriptor

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