. The Caribbean forester. Forests and forestry Caribbean Area Periodicals; Forests and forestry Tropics Periodicals. July - December 1959. The 'mature mangrove forest' is regarded by Davis as a stable subclimax type, not part o: the main succession from open sea to inland forest and not tending to change into any other type of vegetation. Cuatrecasas (2) referring to the mangrovo associations on the Pacific coast of Colombia says that there are several mangrove commu- nities. Each species appear in exclusive asso- ciations that are distributed from the sea inland in accordance with the solidit
. The Caribbean forester. Forests and forestry Caribbean Area Periodicals; Forests and forestry Tropics Periodicals. July - December 1959. The 'mature mangrove forest' is regarded by Davis as a stable subclimax type, not part o: the main succession from open sea to inland forest and not tending to change into any other type of vegetation. Cuatrecasas (2) referring to the mangrovo associations on the Pacific coast of Colombia says that there are several mangrove commu- nities. Each species appear in exclusive asso- ciations that are distributed from the sea inland in accordance with the solidity of the land, the salinity of the soil and the distance from the ocean. The most frequent succession of commu- nities as listed by Cuatrecasas are as follow:;: Red mangrove (Rhizophora brevistyla) on the sea front. Note photos 1. 2 & 3 by W. L. Bender. Servicio Tecnico Cclimb'ano Americano. Black mangrove (Avicennia nitida) on somewhat higher land. White mangrove (Laguncularia racemosa Gaertn.) farther inland. Jeli mangrove (Conocarpus erectus) on still more elevated land. Because of the accumulation of deposits of alluvium in certain locations this succession may appear to the inverted. In some places where hard, rocky, shallow soil appears near the red mangrove the small tree pinuelo (pelliceria rhizophorae) is found mixed with the red mangrove and is followed inland by the Avicennia and Laguncularia associations. Associated with the Avicennia and Laguncu- laria may found the small tree Ardisia grana- tensis and the shrub Pavonia Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Southern Forest Experiment Station (New Orleans, La. ). Rio Piedras, P. R. : Tropical Forest Experiment Station, United States Forest Service
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