Mangrove Tree Offspring Travel Through Water Currents. How will Changing Ocean Densities Alter this Process?

The pods were everywhere. Thousands of mangrove propagules, or germinated seeds, had washed up along shorelines in Corpus Christi, Texas. Biologists were puzzled. They knew these bean-shaped pods couldn’t be from local black mangrove trees—nearly all the Texas trees were killed during the February freez...