Scale model showing how mangrove forests protect the coasts from wave erosion

Apr 12, 2020 3:50 PM

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Scale model showing how mangrove forests protect the coast from wave erosion

Trees good.

6 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Now show low tide.

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Crazy how nature do that

6 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Eyy, the museum of science and industry in chicago right? Really neat museum I went to with my peepaw years ago!

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Kayaked through the Mangrove Lagoon in St Thomas, Virgin Islands this past December. It was beautiful.

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Group immunity...

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Nobody talks about Jim from the Walking Dead or why he said that shit about the mangroves damaging the boat.

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

There’s a company that plants a mangrove for every item of theirs you buy. Manggear.com

6 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

NOPE TAKEN EM DOWN WE NEED SOME BEACH CONDOS STAT

6 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Manatees love that shit.

6 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

It's really interesting to learn about in smaller plants and streams and even in landscape ecology how patches function similarly.

6 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

There's some research on why Louisiana losing their coastal vegetation has influenced the impact of stronger weather storms

6 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Reefs do this, too, and they're all dying now.

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

So you should replace your web browser with Ecosia. They use all profits to plant trees!! Over 90 million so far!

6 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Just like how my mom protects me from jumper cables

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Just like pubic hair prevents crab erosion.

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That first tree just gets kicked in the nuts repeatedly

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Stimulate a tsunami godammit!

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Mangrove, the funkiest of trees.

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

That's Mangroove.

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Just like how yum in tum protects from hunger erosion

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Just like how my laundry on the floor protects the carpet from erosion.

6 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

That's my story & I'm sticking to it!

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Mangroovy

6 years ago | Likes 15 Dislikes 1

It's only a model.

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Don't tap the glass

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Time to start planting trees everywhere

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Damn science, you crazy.

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

This is very neato

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

What do Womangrove forests protect from? Or is that just another term for pubic hair?

6 years ago | Likes 163 Dislikes 15

Freaking sexist trees.

6 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 1

Generally the same this but for 70% less than mangroves

6 years ago | Likes 73 Dislikes 1

IDK, I'm still going down to hunt for some crabs.

6 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 3

Not since the '70s. . .

6 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

This a scale model of the Delta Flume, built by Deltares in The Netherlands. The full scale thing is 300 m long and produces the (1/2)

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Highest artificial waves in the world. About 9 meters high! It’s used to test coastal defenses.

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I made illustrations of it a while back: /a/rKD9DU8

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I love this! However, at our lake home, all of the surrounding homes have retaining wall while we don't which leads to (1/2)

6 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 1

All of the seaweed piling up in front of our place and rotting forever. It makes me want to put in a retaining wall to stop the stink of it!

6 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

What is this a retaining wall for ants?

6 years ago | Likes 41 Dislikes 2

Yes, yes it is. Don't be hate'n against ants,...unless its fire ants. those fuckers can die.

6 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Correct, but we sometimes use walls to create new land, then try to add a living shore wall to it. It's all great until the harbor is gone

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Most land is created for industrial zones. Great if you can add environmental spaces, but that's not always the case sadly.

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

The dunes preserve need my local beach saved much of it from destruction during violent storms last fall. Several beaches were just gone

6 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

The dunes preserve... wat

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

It is a preserve for Lake Michigan dune ecosystem. Grasses, wildflowers, birds, etc. The plants protected the sand from being washed away.

6 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Who downvotes nature and science information?

6 years ago | Likes 162 Dislikes 7

Google "rolling coal." People are fucking garbage.

6 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I dunno but that retaining wall is depressing af

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The Trump administration.

6 years ago | Likes 28 Dislikes 4

Shills for Big Wall.

6 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Its a certain kind of people, that views nature as chaos and disorderly. They prefere a park like landscape.

6 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 3

Trump.

6 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

They probably think it's a bad shitpost?

6 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

People who think 5G towers cause COVID

6 years ago | Likes 19 Dislikes 2

MAGA MOTHERFUCKER!

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People who want to reclaim land from the ocean by using retaining walls. There’s only so much land, but if you “make more”...

6 years ago | Likes 63 Dislikes 2

*trembles in volcano*

6 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Wait until you learn about this project in S. Korea ! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saemangeum

6 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 0

volcanos do it all the time though!

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Nestlé

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Republicans

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Republicans.

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You have to make this political

6 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 7

If the truth is too difficult, you shouldn't' be on the internet, son. Gonna be a rough ride.

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Sorry, dude. It’s just the truth.

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How does erosion happen through a wall? Or are they just too short or full of holes?

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Rainwater runoff can hit the wall and run parallel to it, eroding the soil behind. Most walls aren't flush at the top and subsidence happens

6 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Oh, that makes sense. Sounds like something a good planning (and drain) would solve. But as I demonstrated myself, it's easy to forget those

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Generally drains not allowed because now you're polluting with fertilizer etc. Littoral wetlands like mangroves buffer in *both* directions.

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That's true although it's a completely different point. Against waves the wall is sufficient. Plants just solve a bunch of other stuff too.

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Just like how trees on land protect soil from wind erosion

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Oh my fucking god dude

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Or how pubes protect from wind erosion

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And soil erosion. Particularly, landslides

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Just like your mom prevents erectile dysfunction

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I would've thought the roots were doing most of the work stopping water carrying it off.

6 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 1

And the land keeps all the hot magma from leaking or something

6 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 0

Fucking A it does

6 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Or the other forrest from orcs

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Yea. Farms will also have tree lines to protect their soil from this.

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Tree lines and other barriers also reduce runoff. Agricultural runoff is the primary cause of the dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico

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Dust farms also use trees to protect the dirt from the wind.

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Are… are dust farms a real thing?

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Or like a shield protect human from skin erosion

6 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

*sword erosion

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Hi, Krugs! You’re staying safe?!

6 years ago | Likes 75 Dislikes 1

It makes me super happy to hear that the SlutAtNight is concerned for Mr. Krugs! Hopefully YOU are staying safe too?!

6 years ago | Likes 38 Dislikes 0

He’s my Canadian Buddy!

6 years ago | Likes 27 Dislikes 0

Ah, maple mates.

6 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Maple Mates!!

6 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Aw I love that! My only imgurian friend (brother) is @raphprobably . And he's a dick. (justkiddingiloveyouraph)

6 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 0

Lolllll. I was so confused as to what was happening here till I expanded the reply thread. Hi @jermprobably! Love you!

6 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

At least you have a friend.

6 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

I am! even staying working, which is great. How about yourself?

6 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Social Distancing hard! So healthy ugh:p

6 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Haha I work alone or with 1 other person so I'm thoroughly socially distanced.

6 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I’m in Saskatchewan, so it’s easy!

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