In this study, we investigated the potential effect of winter climate change upon salt marsh and mangrove forest foundation species in the southeastern United States. Our research addresses the following three questions: (1) What is the relationship between winter climate and the presence and abundance of mangrove forests relative to salt marshes; (2) How vulnerable are salt marshes to winter climate change-induced mangrove forest range expansion; and (3) What is the potential future distribution and relative abundance of mangrove forests under alternative winter climate change scenarios? We developed simple winter climate-based models to predict mangrove forest distribution and relative abundance using observed...
Categories: Data;
Tags: Ecology,
Forests,
Grasslands and Plains,
Gulf of Mexico,
Land Use Change, All tags...
Landscapes,
Sea-Level Rise and Coasts,
Southeast CASC,
USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC),
Water, Coasts and Ice,
Wetlands,
biogeography,
effects of climate change,
land use and land cover,
vegetation,
wetland ecosystems, Fewer tags
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