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New Paper: Monitoring Sensitive Mangrove-Marsh Ecotones Under Climate Change

USGS researcher Mike Osland is lead on the paper, Aboveground allometric models for freeze-affected black mangroves (Avicennia germinans): equations for a climate sensitive mangrove-marsh ecotone in Plos One. It is a product of the SE CSC supported project “Ecological Implications of Mangrove Forest Migration in the Southeastern U.S.” Coastal scientists in the southeastern United States can use the identified allometric equations, in combination with easily obtained and non-destructive plant volume measurements, to better quantify and monitor ecological change within the dynamic, climate sensitive, and highly-productive mangrove-marsh ecotone.