Saturday, March 21, 2009 2:03 AM
Reflective Summary
From all the reading of articles and researching, I learnt many interesting facts about the mangroves, like the ecosystems are regulated by many factors, both abiotic and biotic factors, plants and animals in tropical mangrove forests have important controlling influences on several population, community and ecosystem-level processes, at high tide, the roots of the mangroves are fully immersed in sea water, while at low tide, rain or river water may wash out the salt, or evaporation concentrates the roots further, mangrove trees can grow partially submerged in water and where the water usually comes up to the tree by the change in colour of the bark and the animals that encrust the tree roots and trunk and lastly, that the family Rhizophoraceae contains about 100 species of woody plants, all of which are tropical or subtropical in distribution. At first, I thought that in a mangrove, there would only be insects, trees and maybe flowers living together but after all the researching and reading of articles, I now know that in the mangroves, there are many different types of species, how the insects living in the mangrove harm the trees and even the special features and adaptations the trees in the mangrove has. I think the mangrove is a interesting place where I could explore to find out more interesting facts. The insects living in the mangrove destroys the trees in the mangrove, I think I should add some chemicals near the trees they harm so that when the insects smell the chemicals, it will avoid going near the even not even thinking of destroying the tree. I think the mangrove should be restricted and would only be able for people to go in is to buy a ticket and purely going in because they want to admire the trees and not wanting the destroy them. The mangrove should be out of bounds three times a day so as to let the professionals people to observe the trees and to make them healthy in some ways. The mangrove is really an interesting place as we could see all kinds of trees that we had never seen before in our daily life.
(361words) ( Some of the information in my reflective summary were taken from the 5 articles)
