Mangrove maintenance

Marian Turner

Nature, 2015, vol. 526, issue 7574, 515-515

Abstract: Mangrove forests on the verge Intertidal mangrove forests provide a wide range of ecosystem services, including coastal protection and carbon storage. Their survival can be threatened by sea-level rise, but the forests can avoid inundation if there is sufficient sediment supply to allow them to maintain soil elevations suitable for plant growth. This study analyses recent trends in mangrove surface elevation changes across the Indo-Pacific region and finds that sediment availability is important to maintaining rates of soil-surface elevation gain that matched or exceeded that of sea-level rise, but that 69% of the forest study sites had rates of soil-surface elevation gain less than that of sea-level rise. Numerical modelling based on the field data suggests that mangrove forests at sites with low tidal range and low sediment supply could be submerged as early as 2070.

Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1038/526515a

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