Mangrove expansion and salt marsh decline at mangrove poleward limits

• Published in: Global change biology Vol. 20; no. 1; pp. 147 - 157
• Main Authors: Saintilan, Neil, Wilson, Nicholas C., Rogers, Kerrylee, Rajkaran, Anusha, Krauss, Ken W.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.01.2014; Wiley-Blackwell
• Subjects: Abiotic stress; Animal and plant ecology; Animal, plant and microbial ecology; Australia; Avicennia; Avicennia germinans; Avicennia marina; Biological and medical sciences; Brackish water ecosystems; Climate Change; Climatology. Bioclimatology. Climate change; Coasts; Combretaceae; Dispersal; Earth, ocean, space; Ecosystem; Estuaries; Exact sciences and technology; External geophysics; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; General aspects; mangrove; Mangroves; Marine; Meteorology; Plant populations; Population growth; range expansion; Rhizophora stylosa; Rhizophoraceae; salt marsh; Salt marshes; South Africa; South America; Synecology; Temperature; USA; Wetlands; South America; United States; Southern Africa; Africa; America; South Africa; Australia; North America; Oceania; PSE, Australia, New South Wales; USA, Atlantic Coast; ISE, Mexico; ISEW, China, People's Rep., Guangdong Prov; ISE, Peru; South America; Brackish water environment; Temperature; USA; range expansion; Environmental factor; Dynamical climatology; Climate change; Salt marsh; Mangrove; South Africa; Australia; Expansion; temperature; mangrove; climate change; salt marsh

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 contin...