Mark Schuerch

Aug 30, 2023 | nature.com | Neil Saintilan |Benjamin Horton |Torbjörn E. Törnqvist |Erica Ashe |Mark Schuerch |Chris Perry | +5 more

AbstractSeveral coastal ecosystems—most notably mangroves and tidal marshes—exhibit biogenic feedbacks that are facilitating adjustment to relative sea-level rise (RSLR), including the sequestration of carbon and the trapping of mineral sediment1. The stability of reef-top habitats under RSLR is similarly linked to reef-derived sediment accumulation and the vertical accretion of protective coral reefs2. The persistence of these ecosystems under high rates of RSLR is contested3.