Changing ocean, marine ecosystems, and dependent communities

NL Bindoff, WWL Cheung, JG Kairo, J Arístegui… - 2019‏ - ri.conicet.gov.ar
The ocean is a key component of the Earth system (Chapter 1) as it provides essential life
supporting services (Inniss et al. 2017). For example, it stores heat trapped in the …

Mangrove trace metal biogeochemistry response to global climate change

LD de Lacerda, RD Ward, R Borges… - Frontiers in Forests and …, 2022‏ - frontiersin.org
This review discusses observed impacts from different climate change-driven pressures on
mangrove's role in modulating trace metal transfer at the land-ocean interface. It contributes …

Oil spill in South Atlantic (Brazil): Environmental and governmental disaster

M de Oliveira Soares, CEP Teixeira, LEA Bezerra… - Marine Policy, 2020‏ - Elsevier
In early September 2019, dense crude oil began to wash the beaches of Brazil's tropical
coast. Four months after the first report, the oil has already been found along> 3000 km of …

Blue carbon ecosystems in Brazil: Overview and an urgent call for conservation and restoration

MO Soares, LEA Bezerra, M Copertino… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2022‏ - frontiersin.org
In this article, we discuss knowledge and gaps regarding blue carbon ecosystems (BCEs) in
Brazil, considering the urgency to apply protection actions and policies to safeguard their …

Tidal wetland resilience to sea level rise increases their carbon sequestration capacity in United States

F Wang, X Lu, CJ Sanders, J Tang - Nature Communications, 2019‏ - nature.com
Coastal wetlands are large reservoirs of soil carbon (C). However, the annual C
accumulation rates contributing to the C storage in these systems have yet to be spatially …

Vegetated coastal ecosystems in the Southwestern Atlantic Ocean are an unexploited opportunity for climate change mitigation

V Hatje, M Copertino, VF Patire, X Ovando… - … Earth & Environment, 2023‏ - nature.com
Vegetated coastal ecosystems (mangroves, seagrasses, and saltmarshes, often called Blue
Carbon ecosystems) store large carbon stocks. However, their regional carbon inventories …

Extreme weather impacts on tropical mangrove forests in the Eastern Brazil Marine Ecoregion

RN Servino, LE de Oliveira Gomes… - Science of the Total …, 2018‏ - Elsevier
Extreme weather events are likely to become more frequent in the 21st century bringing
significant impacts to coastal ecosystems. However, the capacity to detect and measure …

Deep semantic segmentation of mangroves in Brazil combining spatial, temporal, and polarization data from Sentinel-1 time series

GM de Souza Moreno, OA de Carvalho Júnior… - Ocean & Coastal …, 2023‏ - Elsevier
The automatic and accurate detection of mangroves from remote sensing data is essential to
assist in conservation strategies and decision-making that minimize possible environmental …

Global impacts of projected climate changes on the extent and aboveground biomass of mangrove forests

LP Gouvêa, EA Serrão, K Cavanaugh… - Diversity and …, 2022‏ - Wiley Online Library
Aim Over the past 50 years, anthropogenic activities have led to the disappearance of
approximately one‐third of the world's mangrove forests and their associated ecosystem …

[HTML][HTML] Changes in mangroves at their southernmost African distribution limit

JB Adams, A Rajkaran - Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 2021‏ - Elsevier
Abstract Mangroves in South Africa occur at one of the most southerly locations in the world,
which provides a unique opportunity to study their dynamic responses to anthropogenic and …