Much of the world's natural coastline is protected by living habitats, particularly mangroves in warmer waters and tidal marshes closer to the poles. These ecosystems support fisheries and wildlife, absorb the impact of shock waves, and remove pollutants. However, these vital services are threatened by global warming and rising sea levels.<\/p>\n
Recent research has shown that wetlands can respond to elevation\u00a0<\/span>sea level<\/span><\/a>\u00a0by building their own\u00a0<\/span>root systems<\/span><\/a>\u00a0, while in the process they download\u00a0<\/span>carbon dioxide<\/span><\/a>\u00a0from the atmosphere. Growing recognition of the potential for this "blue" carbon sequestration is driving mangrove and tidal marsh restoration projects.<\/span><\/p>\n While the resilience of these ecosystems is impressive, it is not limitless. Defining the upper limits of the resilience of mangroves and swamps to accelerating sea-level rise is a topic of great interest and extensive debate. <\/span>Our new research,\u00a0<\/span>published in the journal\u00a0<\/span>Nature<\/span><\/i> , analyzes vulnerability and exposure\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span>mangroves<\/span>\u00a0, marshes and coral islands to rising sea levels. The results underline the crucial importance of retention\u00a0 <\/span>global warming<\/span> within 2 degrees of the pre-industrial baseline. (Neil Saintilan, The Conversation)<\/em><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Much of the world\u2019s natural coastline is protected by living habitats, particularly mangroves in warmer waters and tidal marshes closer to the poles. These ecosystems support fisheries and wildlife, absorb the impact of storm surges, and remove pollutants. However, these vital services are under threat from global warming and rising sea levels. Recent research has shown that wetlands can respond to [\u2026]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-klimaticka-zmena"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}