Mangrove swamps are coastal wetlands found in tropical and subtropical regions. They are characterized by halophytic (salt loving) trees, shrubs and other plants growing in brackish to saline tidal waters. These wetlands are often found in estuaries, where fresh water meets salt water. Mangroves provide shelter and source of food for varity of plants and animals species.
From Kathiresan, K., & Bingham, B. L. (2001). Biology of mangroves and mangrove ecosystems. Advances in marine biology, 40, 81-251.
"Mangroves are woody plants that grow at the interface between land and sea in
tropical and sub-tropical latitudes (...). These plants, and the associated
microbes, fungi, plants, and animals, constitute the mangrove forest community or
mangal. The mangal and its associated abiotic factors constitute the mangrove ecosystem"
The classification of mangrove is an ecosystem with a mangal forest (mangrove forest) which grows in a wetland
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