Mangrove Destruction of Odisha  by Godwillson Paika, Student in XSOS, XIM University Bhubaneswar
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Date: 2023-03-01

Mangroves are plants of different types such as a shrub, tree, palm and even fern of diverse evolutionary
origins, evolved with convergent adaptation to thrive in harsh inter tidal environment between land and sea
such as storm, flood, droughts, high salinity, tidal inundation, shifting of sediments, and exposure.
The community of mangroves is an ecological assemblage of plants rather than taxonomic or
morphological grouping.
In other words, representative plants of different families have evolved the means to survive inter tidal
environment between land and sea and become a mangrove in the course of evolution.
There are many plant families that are adopted to the inter tidal environment, but only a few families are
exclusive mangroves.
This suggests that mangroves are not primitive and they evolved in due course of time.
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