Michael J. Osland

TL;DR: The results identify winter climate thresholds for salt marsh-mangrove forest interactions and highlight coastal areas in the southeastern United States (e.g., Texas, Louisiana, and parts of Florida) where relatively small changes in the intensity and frequency of extreme winter events could cause relatively dramatic landscape-scale ecosystem structural and functional change.

TL;DR: The overarching aim is to illustrate the need to also consider macroclimatic drivers within vulnerability assessments for coastal wetlands, and highlight several ecological transition zones where small changes in macroClimatic conditions would result in comparatively large changes in coastal wetland ecosystem structure and function.

TL;DR: In this paper, the influence of air temperature and rainfall regimes on the distribution, abundance, and species richness of mangrove forests was quantified via regional range-limit-specific analyses.

TL;DR: In this paper, a 20-year chronosequence of created tidal wetland sites in Tampa Bay, Florida (USA) to natural reference mangrove wetlands was compared.

TL;DR: Based on current and projected climatic conditions, it is project that transformative ecological changes are probable throughout the region this century, even under conservative climate scenarios.