Coopers Bayou

Brackish Water/fresh and salt mix

Estuaries characters

Salinity, Temperature, Turbidity, Oxygen

Mangal communities

Plant communities of a mangrove swamp

Find, Mangroves swamps;

Islands, sand bars, river estuaries, and fringes of coastal land

Lecture

From a kayak

I canoed with my dog Asher

We learned about mangroves

Low oxygen conditions

How the Mangroves deal with salt

Red mangroves

Prop roots, often red

Propagule looks like a cigar/ (Floats)

Able to grow in unstable sediment

Black mangroves

Tree is taller than mangroves

Elliptical leak with a point

Has pneumatophes

White Mangrove

Glands on the petiole and on the leaf margins

Leaves rounder/lighter in color

Zones

Estuaries are highly productive.

Coopers Bayou

Great time

Learning while floating in the water.

FUN, FUN, FUN TIME!!!!!