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Chapter 3 - Variability of Mangroves Along the Brazilian Coast: Revisiting. In: Brazilian Mangroves and Salt Marshes

  • Gilberto Cintrón-Molero
  • Yara Schaeffer-Novelli
  • André S. Rovai
  • Clemente Coelho-
  • Ricardo P. Menghini
  • Renato de Almeida
  • Cláudia Câmara do Vale
  • Elaine Bernini
  • Guilherme Moraes de Oliveira Abuchahla
  • Marília Cunha-Lignon

Abstract

Brazil’s coastline contains landscape features that are favorable for mangrove development. By revisiting the 1990 paper entitled “Variability of Mangroves Along the Brazilian Coast,” we review aspects of the notion of variability, considering coasts among the most dynamic places on the planet, shifting from a theoretical to an empiric approach. In the previous work, hereafter referred to as the 1990 paper, we suggested mangroves developed in seven out of eight coastal segments inspired by the coastal environmental settings’ framework. We expand the previous work using concepts of complex systems theory to illuminate contemporaneous coastal management issues related to multiple spatial and temporal scales. Here, we suggest that these eight segments occur within three major process domains: Northernmost Domain, Central Deltaic Coast Domain, and Cabo Frio do Laguna Domain, where different factors work together to form geoecological characteristics that are unique, and irreplaceable if lost.

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Cintrón-Molero G., Schaeffer-Novelli Y., Rovai A.S., Coelho- C., Menghini R.P., de Almeida R., do Vale C.C., Bernini E., Moraes de Oliveira Abuchahla G. and Cunha-Lignon M. (2023) Chapter 3 - Variability of Mangroves Along the Brazilian Coast: Revisiting. In: Schaeffer-Novelli Y., Moraes de Oliveira Abuchahla G. & Cintrón-Molero G. (eds.). Brazilian Mangroves and Salt Marshes (pp. 43-65). 10.1007/978-3-031-13486-9_3

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Date 26.02.2023
Pages 43-65
Book Title Brazilian Mangroves and Salt Marshes
Editors Schaeffer-Novelli Y., Moraes de Oliveira Abuchahla G. and Cintrón-Molero G.
ISBN 978-3-031-13485-2
ISSN 2520-1077
Open Access Closed Access
Open Access Status Closed Access
Eprints_link https://cris.leibniz-zmt.de/id/eprint/5289

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