Seagrass helps Biscayne Bay’s mangroves keep up with rising seas
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- The mangroves of Biscayne Bay have been getting help from an unlikely neighbor—the seagrass meadows just offshore. Dead seagrass blades and seaweed drift loose until the tide carries them into the mangroves, where they pile up, rot slowly and then become part of the ground.