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Blog: Sea-Level Rise Likely to Swallow Many Coastal Mangrove Forests

from Yale Climate Connections, June 10, 2020

Blog: Sea-Level Rise Likely to Swallow Many Coastal Mangrove Forests Yale Climate Connections, June 10, 2020 Authors of a recently released study used sediment cores from 78 sites on five continents to determine when mangroves first appeared over the past 10,000 years, as sea-level rise had slowed once Earth fully emerged from the Ice Age. They found that mangrove ecosystems did not develop unless relative sea-level rise was less than 6 to 7 millimeters* per year. (The term "relative" is used because the rate of sea-level rise is determined by the increase in water volume of the oceans plus subsidence or uplift of coastal land). READ MORE

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