Feedback of coastal marshes to climate change: Long-term phenological shifts.

ABSTRACT: Coastal marshes are important carbon sinks facing serious threats from climatic stressors. Current research reveals that the growth of individual marsh plants is susceptible to a changing climate, but the responses of different marsh systems at a landscape scale are less clear. Here, we document the multi-decadal changes in the phenology and the area of the extensive coastal marshes in Louisiana, USA, a representative of coastal ecosystems around the world that currently experiencing sea-level rise, temperature warming, and atmospheric CO ₂ increase. The phenological records are constructed using the longest continuous satellite-based record of the Earth's ecosystems, the Landsat data, and an advanced modeling technique, the nonlinear mixed model. We find that the length of the

SUBMITTER: Mo Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6662267 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature