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Alternate Text: Trio of three global maps showing the global location of mangroves, tidal marshes, and seagrass beds
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Trio of three global maps showing the global location of mangroves, tidal marshes, and seagrass beds

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Globally, mangrove forests (top map, green outlines) are restricted to the tropics, but tidal marshes (center, pink outlines) are found as far north as Alaska (far upper left), and seagrass meadows (bottom, blue outlines) are found as far south as Tasmania (bottom right, south of Australia). Maps by NOAA Climate.gov, based on data from the U.N. Environment Programme Ocean Data Viewer, where you can explore the data in high resolution (lots of local detail).