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Q: Why do prawns and crabs live in mangrove trees?
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What trees that live in water?

Mangrove


How old do mangrove trees live?

1000 years


What do you call it when many mangrove trees live in an ecosystem?

A Mangrove are trees that grow on swamp like or any water environments. For short a mangrove ecosystem is the interaction between biotic and abiotic factors in a "mangrove forest"


Can trees live around salt water?

Yes, mangrove trees do, and there are others as well.


What animals can Fiddler crabs live with?

I have observed Fiddler crabs living peacefully in the company of Mangrove Tree crabs at waters edge in the Indian River Lagoon, Florida.


Why do coconut crabs live in trees?

Coconut crabs do not live in trees they live in borrows under trees. The reason they go up in the trees is to retrieve the coconuts up there. After the get the coconuts down they open them with their powerful claws and eat the coconut.


What type of water in Florida do mangrove trees live in?

There are three species of mangrove trees: red mangroves, white mangroves and black mangroves. They all live in salty or brackish waters along the coastlines. Red mangrove are usually in the lower/deeper waters. They are the ones with the large prop-roots. Reds and Blacks live in higher edges of the wetland/shorelines.


Mangrove trees can live in estuaries because they develop salt glands is it adapt to their environment?

yes


Where do prawns live?

prawns live in the sea antennae


What are mangrove leaves?

Mangrove leaves refer to the leaves of mangrove trees, which are uniquely adapted to thrive in saline or brackish water environments. These leaves are thick, waxy, and often have salt-excreting glands to remove excess salt. They also have specialized adaptations such as sunken stomata and salt-excluding tissues that help mangrove trees cope with high salt concentrations.


Do bats live in mangrove trees?

no they give birth to there young ones in a cave hanging upside down


What does a purple seastar?

When young, the live on plankton. As adults, they live on mussels. They also feed on chitons, limpets, snails, barnacles and decapod crustacea such as crayfish, crabs, lobsters, prawns and shrimp.