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Tags: Forests,
Grasslands and Plains,
Landscapes,
Publication,
Sea-Level Rise and Coasts, All tags...
Southeast CASC,
Southeast CASC,
Water, Coasts and Ice,
Wetlands,
biomass,
canopy height,
climate change,
coastal wetland,
mangrove forest,
nonlinear,
precipitation,
productivity,
salt marsh,
soil carbon,
temperature,
threshold, 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,...
Categories: Publication;
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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Macroclimatic drivers, such as temperature and rainfall regimes, greatly influence ecosystem structure and function in tidal saline wetlands. Understanding the ecological influence of macroclimatic drivers is important because it provides a foundation for anticipating the effects of climate change. Tidal saline wetlands include mangrove forests, salt marshes, and salt flats, which occupy similar geomorphic settings but different climatic regimes. However, most global- or regional-scale analyses have treated these wetlands as independent systems. Here we used climate and literature-derived ecological data from all three systems, collected across targeted regional-scale macroclimatic gradients, to test hypotheses...
Categories: Data;
Types: Downloadable,
Map Service,
OGC WFS Layer,
OGC WMS Layer,
Shapefile;
Tags: None,
above-ground biomass,
canopy height,
climate change,
climate gradients, All tags...
climatic drivers,
climatic thresholds,
ecological thresholds,
environment,
mangrove forests,
productivity,
rainfall,
salt flats,
salt marshes,
soil carbon,
temperature, Fewer tags
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Macroclimatic drivers, such as temperature and rainfall regimes, greatly influence ecosystem structure and function in tidal saline wetlands. Understanding the ecological influence of macroclimatic drivers is important because it provides a foundation for anticipating the effects of climate change. Tidal saline wetlands include mangrove forests, salt marshes, and salt flats, which occupy similar geomorphic settings but different climatic regimes. However, most global- or regional-scale analyses have treated these wetlands as independent systems. Here we used climate and literature-derived ecological data from all three systems, collected across targeted regional-scale macroclimatic gradients, to test hypotheses...
Categories: Data;
Types: Downloadable,
Map Service,
OGC WFS Layer,
OGC WMS Layer,
Shapefile;
Tags: Climate change,
None,
above-ground biomass,
canopy height,
climate gradients, All tags...
climatic drivers,
climatic thresholds,
ecological thresholds,
environment,
mangrove forests,
productivity,
rainfall,
salt flats,
salt marshes,
soil carbon,
temperature, Fewer tags
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