Sentences with phrase «mangrove thickets»
Once established, mangrove thickets protect the shoreline from erosion due to normal storms and tides.
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CAYO COCO, Cuba — Uprooted mangrove thickets are still piled up behind the beaches along Cuba's north coast, interspersed with shards of concrete and steel and other flotsam left over from the destruction wrought by Hurricane Irma.
Even in large storms an extensive mangrove thicket can provide some protection for both the shore and inland areas.
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Cayo Coco: Covered by thickets of mangroves, palms and other forestation, has a 22 - kilometre strip of beach.
The Basil Jones area consists of a seaward beach ridge and leeward mangrove swamp with a broad intervening plateau of palm thicket.
This mangrove has a complex system of prop roots and lower branches that form a nearly impenetrable thicket.
HABITATS Cocal, littoral thicket, mangrove.
The high lands are generally covered by littoral forest, palmetto, broken palmetto thicket and coconut; the low lands with high, medium and low mangrove.
Dry forest, thickets, mangrove, savannah, sheltered bays and steep cliffs of the Caravelle peninsula, a classified natural reserve, offers an environnement ideal for the development of many native species.