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Water uptake feature of mangroves helps fight climate change
Context
A new study on the consequences of climate change on different ecosystems, especially mangroves on the coastal areas of Kerala has found that mangrove plants are heavily equipped to fight climate change.
About
- Research taken up by Kerala Forest Research Institute and Ghent University, Belgium.
- The team included scientists led by Sreejith Kalpuzha, principal scientist, department of forest ecology, Kerala Forest Research Institute, and Kathy Steppe of department of plant ecology, Ghent University, Belgium.
Key Finding:
- Mangrove plants have a special phenomenon called foliar water uptake (FWU), which is a mechanism that enables plants to acquire water from the atmosphere through their leaves.
- The study was envisaged to assess the FWU capacity of six different mangrove species belonging to four genera using a series of submersion experiments.
- The amazing ability of mangrove plants to take up water from the rain and atmospheric water makes them a good candidate to answer climate change.
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What are Mangroves?
Major Mangroves forests in India
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