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  2. Mangrove - Wikipedia

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    Mangroves grow in an equatorial climate, typically along coastlines and tidal rivers. They have particular adaptations to take in extra oxygen and remove salt, allowing them to tolerate conditions that kill most plants. The term is also used for tropical coastal vegetation consisting of such species.

  3. Vegetation - Wikipedia

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    The distinction between vegetation (the general appearance of a community) and flora (the taxonomic composition of a community) was first made by Jules Thurmann (1849). ). Prior to this, the two terms (vegetation and flora) were used indiscriminately, [4] [5] and still are in some co

  4. Tropical horticulture - Wikipedia

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    Latex being collected from an incised rubber tree (Hevea brasiliensis), and a bucket of collected latex. Tropical horticulture is a branch of horticulture that studies and cultivates plants in the tropics, i.e., the equatorial regions of the world.

  5. Indigenous peoples of Maryland - Wikipedia

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    The Indigenous peoples of Maryland are the tribes who historically and currently live in the land that is now the State of Maryland in the United States of America. These tribes belong to the Northeastern Woodlands , a cultural region .

  6. Geography of Maryland - Wikipedia

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    Maryland possesses a variety of topography within its borders, contributing to its nickname America in Miniature.It ranges from sandy dunes dotted with seagrass in the east, to low marshlands teeming with wildlife and large bald cypress near the Chesapeake Bay, to gently rolling hills of oak forests in the Piedmont Region, and pine groves in the Maryland mountains to the west.

  7. Equatorial region - Wikipedia

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    This page was last edited on 11 July 2005, at 14:15 (UTC).; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may ...

  8. Biodiversity - Wikipedia

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    Several ecological factors may contribute to the gradient, but the ultimate factor behind many of them is the greater mean temperature at the equator compared to that at the poles. [ 82 ] Even though terrestrial biodiversity declines from the equator to the poles, [ 3 ] some studies claim that this characteristic is unverified in aquatic ...

  9. Atlantic Equatorial coastal forests - Wikipedia

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    The Atlantic Equatorial coastal forests, also known as the Congolian coastal forests (French: Forêts côtières équatoriales atlantiques, Spanish: Bosques costeros atlánticos ecuatoriales, Portuguese: Florestas costeiras atlânticas equatoriais), are a tropical moist broadleaf forest ecoregion of Central Africa, covering hills, plains, and mountains of the Atlantic coast of Cameroon ...