Fig. 2

Box and whisker plots of Bostrychietum height (left) to characterize the flooding level and its topographic profile with tidal flooding levels (right), in each mangrove forest according to the predominance of Laguncularia racemosa (Lh high mangrove; Ll low mangrove), Avicennia schaueriana (A), or Rhizophora mangle (R), at Iguape Municipality, State of São Paulo, southeast Brazil, where SE standard error, CI 5 % confidence interval at 5 % = 1.96 * SE; means indicated with a different letter were statistically heterogeneous (P < 0.01)