Impacts of climate change on mangrove ecosystems: a region by region overview

Abstract Inter-related and spatially variable climate change factors including sea level rise, increased storminess, altered precipitation regime and increasing temperature are impacting mangroves at regional scales. This review highlights extreme regional variation in climate change threats and impacts, and how these factors impact the structure of mangrove communities, their biodiversity and geomorphological setting. All these factors interplay to determine spatially variable resiliency to climate change impacts, and because mangroves are varied in type and geographical location, these systems are good models for understanding such interactions at different scales. Sea level rise is likely to influence…

• US
  United States Agency for International Development
• AN
  Asia-Pacific Network for Global Change Research

  Award: ARCP2014-14NMYB&ES
• NU
  National University of Singapore

  Awards: R-109-000-158-646, R-109-000-184-720, R-109-000-141-133
• UF
  Universidade Federal do Pará