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What mysteries hide the swamps?

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Mangroves.

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By: Amélie Beaucour

Mangroves, bayous, marshes: how are these ecosystems organised, what riches do they hide and how can they be preserved?

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With

François Fromard

, Emeritus CNRS Research Director, associated with the ECOLAB Laboratory – Functional Ecology and Environment Laboratory of the University of Toulouse, for his book

Mangrove - A forest in the sea

published by CNRS editions.

And 

Jean-Michel Derex

,

Doctor of History, he is President of the Wetlands History Group.

He works on the history of the environment and on the evolution of French landscapes.

On the occasion of the release

of the review Reliefs

 devoted to marshes. 

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