Blue carbon as a natural climate solution

PI Macreadie, MDP Costa, TB Atwood… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2021 - nature.com
Blue carbon ecosystems (BCEs), including mangrove forests, seagrass meadows and tidal
marshes, store carbon and provide co-benefits such as coastal protection and fisheries …

The state of the world's mangrove forests: past, present, and future

DA Friess, K Rogers, CE Lovelock… - Annual Review of …, 2019 - annualreviews.org
Intertidal mangrove forests are a dynamic ecosystem experiencing rapid changes in extent
and habitat quality over geological history, today and into the future. Climate and sea level …

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 …

Effect of land‐use and land‐cover change on mangrove blue carbon: A systematic review

SD Sasmito, P Taillardat, JN Clendenning… - Global change …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Mangroves shift from carbon sinks to sources when affected by anthropogenic land‐use and
land‐cover change (LULCC). Yet, the magnitude and temporal scale of these impacts are …

Mangrove sedimentation and response to relative sea-level rise

CD Woodroffe, K Rogers, KL McKee… - Annual review of …, 2016 - annualreviews.org
Mangroves occur on upper intertidal shorelines in the tropics and subtropics. Complex
hydrodynamic and salinity conditions, related primarily to elevation and hydroperiod …

Mangrove dieback during fluctuating sea levels

CE Lovelock, IC Feller, R Reef, S Hickey, MC Ball - Scientific Reports, 2017 - nature.com
Recent evidence indicates that climate change and intensification of the El Niño Southern
Oscillation (ENSO) has increased variation in sea level. Although widespread impacts on …

Nature-based engineering: a review on reducing coastal flood risk with mangroves

R Gijsman, EM Horstman, D van der Wal… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Integration of mangroves in projects to reduce coastal flood risk is increasingly being
recognised as a sustainable and cost-effective alternative. In addition to the construction of …

Are global mangrove carbon stocks driven by rainfall?

CJ Sanders, DT Maher, DR Tait… - Journal of …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Mangrove forests produce significant amounts of organic carbon and maintain large carbon
stocks in tidally inundated, anoxic soils. This work analyzes new and published data from 17 …

Toward a mechanistic understanding of “peat collapse” and its potential contribution to coastal wetland loss

LG Chambers, HE Steinmuller, JL Breithaupt - Ecology, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Coastal wetlands are susceptible to loss in both health and extent via stressors associated
with global climate change and anthropogenic disturbance. Peat collapse may represent an …

Mangroves response to climate change: a review of recent findings on mangrove extension and distribution

MDP Godoy, LD Lacerda - Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências, 2015 - SciELO Brasil
Mangroves function as a natural coastline protection for erosion and inundation, providing
important environmental services. Due to their geographical distribution at the continent …