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Mangrove expansion and salt marsh decline at mangrove poleward limits

Overview of attention for article published in Global Change Biology, November 2013
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Title
Mangrove expansion and salt marsh decline at mangrove poleward limits
Published in
Global Change Biology, November 2013
DOI 10.1111/gcb.12341
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Authors

Neil Saintilan, Nicholas C. Wilson, Kerrylee Rogers, Anusha Rajkaran, Ken W. Krauss

Abstract

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 continents over the past half century, at the expense of salt marsh. Avicennia is the most cold-tolerant genus worldwide, and is the subject of most of the observed changes. Avicennia germinans has extended in range along the USA Atlantic coast and expanded into salt marsh as a consequence of lower frost frequency and intensity in the southern USA. The genus has also expanded into salt marsh at its southern limit in Peru, and on the Pacific coast of Mexico. Mangroves of several species have expanded in extent and replaced salt marsh where protected within mangrove reserves in Guangdong Province, China. In south-eastern Australia, the expansion of Avicennia marina into salt marshes is now well documented, and Rhizophora stylosa has extended its range southward, while showing strong population growth within estuaries along its southern limits in northern New South Wales. Avicennia marina has extended its range southwards in South Africa. The changes are consistent with the poleward extension of temperature thresholds coincident with sea-level rise, although the specific mechanism of range extension might be complicated by limitations on dispersal or other factors. The shift from salt marsh to mangrove dominance on subtropical and temperate shorelines has important implications for ecological structure, function, and global change adaptation.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Germany 2 <1%
Netherlands 2 <1%
Brazil 2 <1%
United Kingdom 2 <1%
Canada 1 <1%
Singapore 1 <1%
Belgium 1 <1%
Spain 1 <1%
Philippines 1 <1%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 564 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 95 16%
Student > Master 86 15%
Researcher 79 14%
Student > Bachelor 78 14%
Other 24 4%
Other 91 16%
Unknown 124 21%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Environmental Science 188 33%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 142 25%
Earth and Planetary Sciences 52 9%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 11 2%
Engineering 11 2%
Other 24 4%
Unknown 149 26%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 95. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 30 January 2020.
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#442,918
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#511
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Outputs of similar age from Global Change Biology
#7
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