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Mangroves are forested tidal wetlands that occur in tropical, sub-tropical, and warm temperate coastal regions around the world. Mangroves occupy a significant area of coastlines globally and provide important ecosystem services to humans and wildlife. These services include aesthetic value, storm protection, food provisioning, recreation, critical wildlife habitat, and biological carbon sequestration. However, mangrove wetlands are being lost globally due to both human development and sea level rise. Since mangroves provide numerous services and protections to society, the influences of environmental change on these ecosystems need to be understood so that effective management action can be taken. This project...
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Types: Map Service,
OGC WFS Layer,
OGC WMS Layer,
OGC WMS Service;
Tags: 2020,
CASC,
Completed,
Forests,
Forests, All tags...
Landscapes,
Landscapes,
Other Landscapes,
Other Landscapes,
Plants,
Projects by Region,
Sea-Level Rise and Coasts,
Sea-Level Rise and Coasts,
Southeast,
Southeast CASC,
Water, Coasts and Ice,
Water, Coasts and Ice,
Wetlands,
Wetlands,
Wildlife and Plants, Fewer tags
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Mangroves are species of halophytic intertidal trees and shrubs derived from tropical genera and are likely delimited in latitudinal range by varying sensitivity to cold. There is now sufficient evidence that mangrove species have proliferated at or near their poleward limits on at least five continents over the past half century, at the expense of salt marsh. Avicennia is the most cold-tolerant genus worldwide, and is the subject of most of the observed changes. Avicennia germinans has extended in range along the USA Atlantic coast and expanded into salt marsh as a consequence of lower frost frequency and intensity in the southern USA. The genus has also expanded into salt marsh at its southern limit in Peru,...
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Types: Citation;
Tags: Australia,
Forests,
Grasslands and Plains,
Landscapes,
Sea-Level Rise and Coasts, All tags...
South Africa,
South America,
Southeast CASC,
USA,
Water, Coasts and Ice,
Wetlands,
climate change,
mangrove,
range expansion,
salt marsh,
temperature, Fewer tags
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How will climate change affect coastal wetlands and their ability to support fish and wildlife habitat and other important ecosystem goods and services for current and future generations?
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OGC WFS Layer,
OGC WMS Layer,
OGC WMS Service;
Tags: Coastal wetland,
Forests,
Grasslands and Plains,
Landscapes,
Sea-Level Rise and Coasts, All tags...
Southeast CASC,
Water, Coasts and Ice,
Wetlands,
ecosystem threshold,
estuarine,
freshwater,
macroclimate,
mangroves,
rainfall,
salt marsh, Fewer tags
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Coastal wetlands store carbon in their soils. Carbon is produced by emergent biomass and in-situ root growth, as well as deposited through sedimentation. Burial of aboveground carbon within soils and disruption of long-term soil carbon storage are both influenced by the fauna present in coastal wetlands. Data were used to test the hypothesis that the American Alligator (Alligator mississippiensis) offsets the losses of soil carbon as influenced by herbivores by serving in herbivore population control, thereby facilitating greater soil carbon storage when alligators are present. Data were either extracted on-line (https://serc.si.edu/coastal-carbon, accessed 11 July 2024) or through surveys conducted along the Atlantic...
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