Mangrove expansion and salt marsh decline at mangrove poleward limits

Global Change Biology

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 147-157

  Saintilan, Neil ^a   Wilson, Nicholas C ^b   Rogers, Kerrylee ^c   Rajkaran, Anusha ^d   Krauss, Ken W ^e  

^a OFFICE OF ENVIRONMENT AND HERITAGE   (Australia)

^b Institute of Agriculture Sciences for Southern Vietnam   (Viet Nam)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^d RHODES UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^e NATIONAL WETLANDS RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Australia; Climate change; Mangrove; Range expansion; Salt marsh; South Africa; South America; Temperature; USA

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE EFFECT; ECOLOGICAL STABILITY; ESTUARINE ECOSYSTEM; GLOBAL CHANGE; LATITUDINAL GRADIENT; MANGROVE; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; RANGE EXPANSION; RANGE SIZE; SALTMARSH; SEA LEVEL CHANGE;

ATLANTIC COAST [NORTH AMERICA]; ATLANTIC COAST [UNITED STATES]; AUSTRALIA; CHINA; GUANGDONG; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; NEW SOUTH WALES; PACIFIC COAST [MEXICO]; PACIFIC COAST [NORTH AMERICA]; PERU; SOUTH AFRICA; UNITED STATES;

AVICENNIA; AVICENNIA GERMINANS; AVICENNIA MARINA; RHIZOPHORA STYLOSA; RHIZOPHORACEAE;

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; AVICENNIA; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMBRETACEAE; ECOSYSTEM; MANGROVE; RANGE EXPANSION; RHIZOPHORACEAE; SALT MARSH; SOUTH AFRICA; SOUTH AMERICA; TEMPERATURE; UNITED STATES; WETLAND;

AUSTRALIA; CLIMATE CHANGE; MANGROVE; RANGE EXPANSION; SALT MARSH; SOUTH AFRICA; SOUTH AMERICA; TEMPERATURE; USA;

AVICENNIA; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMBRETACEAE; ECOSYSTEM; RHIZOPHORACEAE; TEMPERATURE; WETLANDS;

EID: 84889671477     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.12341     Document Type: Article

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