Chapter 18 - The Mangrove-Salt Marsh Complex: A Dynamic Landscape Approach. In: Brazilian Mangroves and Salt Marshes
Gilberto Cintrón-Molero
Yara Schaeffer-Novelli
André S. Rovai
Guilherme Moraes de Oliveira Abuchahla
Abstract
Brazilian coastal marshes and mangrove forests occur discontinuously from Amapá State to Santa Catarina. At about 20° S–30° S, a narrow moisture conduit brings Amazonian water vapor to the coast that transforms Patos Lagoon into an oligohaline lake that creates a freshwater barrier to mangroves and salt marshes. Marshes and mangroves are prominent features of tropical and subtropical muddy coastal intertidal landscapes. They are considered important because of their attributes and functions at different organization levels, from local to landscape, regional and global, forming interacting and interlaced salt marsh-mangrove complexes within geomorphic settings. However, these entities are currently perceived as discrete and autonomous and not as what they are, integrated functional units. This chapter provides an integrated landscape perspective that considers these areas as a dynamic self-assembled continuum that develops from the interaction of species, substrate, meteorology, hydrology, seed and propagule availability, and diaspore dispersal processes within a variety of coastal geomorphic landforms that act as structural process domains. These complexes can be extensive on humid tropical and subtropical coastlines as along the coast of Brazil although salt marshes extend well beyond into temperate and austral latitudes.
Cintrón-Molero G., Schaeffer-Novelli Y., Rovai A.S. and Moraes de Oliveira Abuchahla G. (2023) Chapter 18 - The Mangrove-Salt Marsh Complex: A Dynamic Landscape Approach. In: Schaeffer-Novelli Y., Moraes de Oliveira Abuchahla G. & Cintrón-Molero G. (eds.). Brazilian Mangroves and Salt Marshes (pp. 365-380). 10.1007/978-3-031-13486-9_18
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Title = {Chapter 18 - The Mangrove-Salt Marsh Complex: A Dynamic Landscape Approach},
Author = {Cintrón-Molero, Gilberto and Schaeffer-Novelli, Yara and Rovai, André S. and Moraes de Oliveira Abuchahla, Guilherme},
Editor = {Schaeffer-Novelli, Y. and Moraes de Oliveira Abuchahla, G. and Cintrón-Molero, G.},
Journal = {Brazilian marine biodiversity},
Year = {2023},
Pages = {365-380},
Doi = {10.1007/978-3-031-13486-9_18},
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