Ecological responses, adaptation and mechanisms of mangrove wetland ecosystem to global climate change and anthropogenic activities

YS Wang, JD Gu - International Biodeterioration & Biodegradation, 2021‏ - Elsevier
Mangrove wetlands possess four important characteristics as one of the unique marine
ecosystems, and are found in the intertidal coastal regions of the tropics and subtropics in …

Vertical land motion as a key to understanding sea level change and variability

G Wöppelmann, M Marcos - Reviews of Geophysics, 2016‏ - Wiley Online Library
Vertical land motions are a key element in understanding how sea levels have changed
over the past century and how future sea levels may impact coastal areas. Ideally, to be …

The global flood protection benefits of mangroves

P Menéndez, IJ Losada, S Torres-Ortega, S Narayan… - Scientific reports, 2020‏ - nature.com
Coastal flood risks are rising rapidly. We provide high resolution estimates of the economic
value of mangroves forests for flood risk reduction every 20 km worldwide. We develop a …

Persistent acceleration in global sea-level rise since the 1960s

S Dangendorf, C Hay, FM Calafat, M Marcos… - Nature Climate …, 2019‏ - nature.com
Previous studies reconstructed twentieth-century global mean sea level (GMSL) from sparse
tide-gauge records to understand whether the recent high rates obtained from satellite …

Global and regional sea level rise scenarios for the United States

WV Sweet, RE Kopp, CP Weaver, J Obeysekera… - 2017‏ - ntrs.nasa.gov
The Sea Level Rise and Coastal Flood Hazard Scenarios and Tools Interagency Task
Force, jointly convened by the US Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) and the …

Climate change risk to global port operations

C Izaguirre, IJ Losada, P Camus, JL Vigh… - Nature Climate …, 2021‏ - nature.com
The ports sector is critical to global transport and trade. Climate change may compromise
port operations, resulting in an increase in operational shutdowns and subsequent …

Probabilistic reanalysis of twentieth-century sea-level rise

CC Hay, E Morrow, RE Kopp, JX Mitrovica - Nature, 2015‏ - nature.com
Estimating and accounting for twentieth-century global mean sea-level (GMSL) rise is critical
to characterizing current and future human-induced sea-level change. Several previous …

Sea-level rise from the late 19th to the early 21st century

JA Church, NJ White - Surveys in geophysics, 2011‏ - Springer
We estimate the rise in global average sea level from satellite altimeter data for 1993–2009
and from coastal and island sea-level measurements from 1880 to 2009. For 1993–2009 …

Unabated planetary warming and its ocean structure since 2006

D Roemmich, J Church, J Gilson, D Monselesan… - Nature climate …, 2015‏ - nature.com
Increasing heat content of the global ocean dominates the energy imbalance in the climate
system. Here we show that ocean heat gain over the 0–2,000 m layer continued at a rate of …

Sea level rise and its coastal impacts

A Cazenave, GL Cozannet - Earth's Future, 2014‏ - Wiley Online Library
Global warming in response to accumulation of human‐induced greenhouse gases inside
the atmosphere has already caused several visible consequences, among them increase of …