Ilka C. Feller

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the rates and processes of peat formation by mangroves of the Caribbean Region to better understand biological controls on habitat stability, and found that the addition of nutrients to mangrove root accumulation caused significant changes in rates of root accumulation, which influenced both the rate and direction of change in elevation.

TL;DR: It is concluded that phosphorus availability is a major factor limiting red mangrove growth at my study site in the interior of Twin Cays and that sclerophylly in oligotrophic ecosystems may be an adaptive mechanism related to nutrient conservation, and that it is associated with redMangrove survival in phosphorus-deficient soil rather than an adaptation to herbivory.

TL;DR: In this article, a factorial-designed experiment was conducted to determine responses by red mangrove (Rhizophora mangle) and its primary consumers to nutrient enrichment, and to determine if nutrient limitation is responsible for the dwarf plant form of red mangle, and evaluate four competing hypotheses for the relation of nutrient status and invertebrate herbivory.

TL;DR: Although mangroves have been proposed to protect the marine environment from land-derived nutrient pollution, nutrient enrichment can have negative consequences for mangrove forests and their capacity for retention of nutrients may be limited.

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that the area of mangrove forests has doubled at the northern end of their historic range on the east coast of Florida, and a temperature-related ecological threshold of −4°C is identified, suggesting that landscape-scale increases in mangroves area may occur in other regions where this threshold is crossed.