Sea Level May Erode Mangrove After 2030

If the human destruction of natural mangrove direct threat, then the human activities related to climate change, particularly sea-level rise, is likely to become a major hidden relations mangrove survival.

2008, Zhanjiang Mangrove Nature Reserve, Xiamen University, City University of Hong Kong established the Zhanjiang Mangrove Ecosystem Research Station, the study includes the impact of global climate change and human activities on ecosystems. "With the rise of the sea level, the mangrove forest belt will gradually move northward, the next few decades, or even partially submerged While it is not yet quite able to see this change, but we need to begin to consider the response. The Xu Fanghong said.

It is understood that the habits of students mangroves near seawater daily high tide and even occasionally come with the typhoon storm surge, not be able to destroy the sea to cover up more than half, or a short period of time submerged no problem, but if the long- time completely submerged mangroves can not survive, "said Chen Guangdong over.

Because of this, the response the mangrove Lin Duihai level rise is on the one hand landward migration, on the other hand mangroves by catching sand siltation unique biological landscape tidal flats, tidal flat deposition rate is greater than or equal to sea level rise rate mangrove growth with stable or even advancing to the ocean.

Well, the response capacity of the mangroves ability to withstand the impact of sea level rise?

Since the 1950s, China's coastal sea level rise rate of 1.4-3.2 mm / year, is expected to increase in 2030 to 0.01-0.16 cm in southern China in 2100 rise is expected for the South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences researcher Zhang Q M. 0.60-0.74 cm. Overall on most of our mangrove tidal flat siltation rate close to or greater than 2030 years ago, sea level rise rate, tidal flats, mangroves marsh surface deposition "to keep up with even beyond the" sea-level rise,...