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halophyte

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halophyte (hăl`əfīt'), any plant, especially a seed plant, that is able to grow in habitats excessively rich in salts, such as salt marshes, sea coasts, and saline or alkaline semideserts and steppes. These plants have special physiological adaptations that enable them to absorb water from soils and from seawater, which have solute concentrations that nonhalophytes could not tolerate. Some halophytes are actually succulent, with a high water-storage capacity.
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Variation in the natural abundance of 15N in the halophyte, Salicornia virginica, associated with groundwater subsidies of nitrogen in a southern California salt marsh.
Rationale for a new generation of indicators for coastal waters by McDonald, Michael / Environmental Health Perspectives
With funding from EPRI and a Southwest electric utility, researchers in Arizona have begun to investigate the uptake and storage of carbon by halophytes that are simply plowed into desert soil at maturity.
Salty farms for storing global carbon by Science News
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