The Impact of Climate Change on Mangrove Forests

Alongi, Daniel M.

doi:10.1007/s40641-015-0002-x

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“…For mangroves in the Indo-Pacific, Lovelock et al (2015) reported that 69% of their sites were not building surface elevations at rates that equaled or exceeded sea-level rise. Additional losses are expected to occur as a result of coastal squeeze, in regions where sea level rises and pushes mangroves landward into areas where the lack of suitable space (e.g., due to natural or anthropogenic barriers) hampers up-slope dispersal and subsequent establishment (Alongi, 2015). Alongi (2015) predicted that the impact of climate change would be felt most acutely by mangroves along arid coasts as salinities increase, freshwater supplies decrease, and critical temperature thresholds are reached.…”

Section: Potential Mangrove Losses Due To Climate Changementioning

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The state of the world’s mangroves in the 21st century under climate change

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Concerted mangrove research and rehabilitation efforts over the last several decades have prompted a better understanding of the important ecosystem attributes worthy of protection and a better conservation ethic toward mangrove wetlands globally. While mangroves continue to be degraded and lost in specific regions, conservation initiatives, rehabilitation efforts, natural regeneration, and climate range expansion have promoted gains in other areas, ultimately serving to curb the high mangrove habitat loss statistics from the doom and gloom of the 1980s. We highlight those trends in this article and introduce this special issue of Hydrobiologia dedicated to the important and recurring Mangrove and Macrobenthos Meeting. This collection of papers represents studies presented at the fourth such meeting (MMM4) held in St. Augustine, Florida, USA, on July 18-22, 2016. Our intent is to provide a balanced message about the global state of mangrove wetlands by describing recent reductions in net mangrove area losses and highlighting primary research studies presented at MMM4 through a collection of papers. These papers serve not only to highlight on-going global research advancements, but also provide an overview of the vast amount of data on mangrove ecosystem ecology, biology and rehabilitation that emphasizes the uniqueness of the mangrove community.

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“…Increased temperatures result in faster mangrove growth and greater mangrove diversity. Field data from mangrove surveys around the world [204,[206][207][208] indicate contemporary poleward (latitudinal) expansion due to the global increase in sea surface temperature [208].…”

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Multiple Stable States and Catastrophic Shifts in Coastal Wetlands: Progress, Challenges, and Opportunities in Validating Theory Using Remote Sensing and Other Methods

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Multiple stable states are established in coastal tidal wetlands (marshes, mangroves, deltas, seagrasses) by ecological, hydrological, and geomorphological feedbacks. Catastrophic shifts between states can be induced by gradual environmental change or by disturbance events. These feedbacks and outcomes are key to the sustainability and resilience of vegetated coastlines, especially as modulated by human activity, sea level rise, and climate change. Whereas multiple stable state theory has been invoked to model salt marsh responses to sediment supply and sea level change, there has been comparatively little empirical verification of the theory for salt marshes or other coastal wetlands. Especially lacking is long-term evidence documenting if or how stable states are established and maintained at ecosystem scales. Laboratory and field-plot studies are informative, but of necessarily limited spatial and temporal scope. For the purposes of long-term, coastal-scale monitoring, remote sensing is the best viable option. This review summarizes the above topics and highlights the emerging promise and challenges of using remote sensing-based analyses to validate coastal OPEN ACCESS Remote Sens. 2015, 7 10185 wetland dynamic state theories. This significant opportunity is further framed by a proposed list of scientific advances needed to more thoroughly develop the field.

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“…Subsidence, a decreasing in sediment transport from the Ganges and other rivers to the sea due to damming, and rising sea level, resulted in a dramatic decline in mangroves growing on islands, particularly in the central and eastern sectors of the Sundarbans (Rahu et al 2012). In other river deltas, sea level rise, storms, and cyclones enhanced subsidence and declines in sediment supply, resulting in a landward migration of mangroves but with a net contraction (Alongi 2015).…”

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Mangroves Response to Climate Change: A Review of Recent Findings on Mangrove Extension and Distribution

Godoy

Lacerda

2015

An. Acad. Bras. Ciênc.

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Mangroves function as a natural coastline protection for erosion and inundation, providing important environmental services. Due to their geographical distribution at the continent-ocean interface, the mangrove habitat may suffer heavy impacts from global climate change, maximized by local human activities occurring in a given coastal region. This review analyzed the literature published over the last 25 years, on the documented response of mangroves to environmental change caused by global climate change, taking into consideration 104 case studies and predictive modeling, worldwide. Most studies appeared after the year 2000, as a response to the 1997 IPCC report. Although many reports showed that the world's mangrove area is decreasing due to direct anthropogenic pressure, several others, however, showed that in a variety of habitats mangroves are expanding as a response to global climate change. Worldwide, pole ward migration is extending the latitudinal limits of mangroves due to warmer winters and decreasing the frequency of extreme low temperatures, whereas in low-lying coastal plains, mangroves are migrating landward due to sea level rise, as demonstrated for the NE Brazilian coast. Taking into consideration climate change alone, mangroves in most areas will display a positive response. In some areas however, such as low-lying oceanic islands, such as in the Pacific and the Caribbean, and constrained coastlines, such as the SE Brazilian coast, mangroves will most probably not survive.

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The Impact of Climate Change on Mangrove Forests

Cited by 384 publications

References 89 publications

The state of the world’s mangroves in the 21st century under climate change

The state of the world’s mangroves in the 21st century under climate change

Multiple Stable States and Catastrophic Shifts in Coastal Wetlands: Progress, Challenges, and Opportunities in Validating Theory Using Remote Sensing and Other Methods

Mangroves Response to Climate Change: A Review of Recent Findings on Mangrove Extension and Distribution

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