wetlands

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  Seagrasses are normally found in relatively shalow water. Like typical land plants, seagrasses depend on photosynthesis for energy production. For this reason, they cannot live in water that is either too deep or too dim to allow the penetration of sunlight.
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  The view of Mackey Bay faces south.
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  The ecosystem function of this river corridor system directly affects the water quality in the Perdido River and Perdido Bay and the estuaries of the system.
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  In the biology of trees, a cypress knee is a distinctive structure in a root of a cypress tree of any of various species of the subfamil Taxodioideae. A likely function is that of structural support and stabilization and assist in anchoring the tree in the soft, muddy soil.