How plants influence resilience of salt marsh and mangrove wetlands to sea-level rise

DR Cahoon, KL McKee, JT Morris - Estuaries and Coasts, 2021 - Springer
This review evaluates the importance of plants and associated biological processes in
determining the vulnerability of coastal wetlands to sea-level rise. Coastal wetlands occur …

Geomorphic and ecological constraints on the coastal carbon sink

ML Kirwan, JP Megonigal, GL Noyce… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2023 - nature.com
Climate change is driving a fundamental reorganization of the coastal zone, in which carbon-
rich ecosystems are simultaneously migrating, accreting and submerging. In this Review, we …

Migration and transformation of coastal wetlands in response to rising seas

MJ Osland, B Chivoiu, NM Enwright, KM Thorne… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Coastal wetlands are not only among the world's most valued ecosystems but also among
the most threatened by high greenhouse gas emissions that lead to accelerated sea level …

Warming reshaped the microbial hierarchical interactions

Y Zhou, B Sun, B Xie, K Feng, Z Zhang… - Global Change …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Global warming may alter microbially mediated ecosystem functions through reshaping of
microbial diversity and modified microbial interactions. Here, we examined the effects of 5 …

Salinity controls soil microbial community structure and function in coastal estuarine wetlands

G Zhang, J Bai, CC Tebbe, Q Zhao, J Jia… - Environmental …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Soil salinity acts as a critical environmental filter on microbial communities, but the
consequences for microbial diversity and biogeochemical processes are poorly understood …

Impacts of climate change on mangrove ecosystems: a region by region overview

RD Ward, DA Friess, RH Day… - Ecosystem Health and …, 2016 - spj.science.org
Inter-related and spatially variable climate change factors including sea level rise, increased
storminess, altered precipitation regime and increasing temperature are impacting …

Global controls on carbon storage in mangrove soils

AS Rovai, RR Twilley, E Castañeda-Moya… - Nature Climate …, 2018 - nature.com
Global-scale variation in mangrove ecosystem properties has been explained using a
conceptual framework linking geomorphological processes to distinct coastal environmental …

Large-scale dieback of mangroves in Australia's Gulf of Carpentaria: a severe ecosystem response, coincidental with an unusually extreme weather event

NC Duke, JM Kovacs, AD Griffiths… - Marine and …, 2017 - CSIRO Publishing
This study records and documents the most severe and notable instance ever reported of
sudden and widespread dieback of mangrove vegetation. Between late 2015 and early …

Sub-continental-scale mapping of tidal wetland composition for East Asia: A novel algorithm integrating satellite tide-level and phenological features

Z Zhang, N Xu, Y Li, Y Li - Remote Sensing of Environment, 2022 - Elsevier
Tidal wetlands, the global hotspots of biodiversity and carbon stocks, are currently
experiencing widespread modifications in their composition due to human disturbances and …

Climatic controls on the global distribution, abundance, and species richness of mangrove forests

MJ Osland, LC Feher, KT Griffith… - Ecological …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Mangrove forests are highly productive tidal saline wetland ecosystems found along
sheltered tropical and subtropical coasts. Ecologists have long assumed that climatic drivers …