Climate change is altering the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events. Quantifying ecosystem responses to extreme events at the landscape scale is critical for understanding and responding to climate-driven change but is constrained by limited data availability. Here, we integrated remote sensing with ground-based observations to quantify landscape-scale vegetation damage from an extreme climatic event. We used ground- and satellite-based black mangrove (Avicennia germinans) leaf damage data from the northern Gulf of Mexico (USA and Mexico) to examine the effects of an extreme freeze in a region where black mangroves are expanding their range. The February 2021 event produced coastal temperatures as low...
Categories: Data;
Tags: Avicennia germinans,
Ecology,
Florida,
Gulf of Mexico,
Land Use Change, All tags...
Louisiana,
Sentinel-2,
Texas,
USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC),
biota,
ecological threshold,
extreme freeze,
mangroves,
range limit,
remote sensing, Fewer tags
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