Nursery:
The mangroves create a happy nursery for many young fish which provides protection from outside predators. The Red Mangrove for example has roots that diversely stick in the ground creating small spaces made for smaller fish.
Nutrients:
Nutrient conserving processes in mangroves are well developed and include evergreeness, resorption of nutrients prior to leaf fall and the immobilization of nutrients in leaf litter during decomposition. It provides detritus for sea grass also.
Sediment:
The sediment benefits from the mangroves creating a stabler surface. And sometimes it creates a sediment plume which filter and trap dirt as it flows, this filter toxins from the water before it enters the sea.
Toxins:
As said before, the toxins are filtered by the mangroves from the sediment before it enters the sea.
Buffer system:
The mangroves are also beneficial to wildlife and the residents living behind it because when tropical storms hit or hurricanes strike, they serve as a buffer and take the hard blow of the storm protecting what's behind it.
Ecosystem corridor:
The mangrove provides an ecosystem by protecting smaller fish to grow and therefore helping fishing industries to catch the big fish as they get older.
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