'Mangroves' of the North (IMAGE)

University of Washington

'Mangroves' of the North

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The researchers nicknamed boreal floodplains "mangroves of the North" because there are almost impenetrable tangles of willow trees and roots in places and cyanobacteria are fixing nitrogen like their counterparts in tropical and subtropical mangroves.

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T DeLuca/U of Washington

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