Dynamics of American mangroves at austral and boreal limits on secular and decadal scales

• Grant number: 20/13715-1
• Support Opportunities: Regular Research Grants
• Start date: September 01, 2021
• End date: February 29, 2024
• Field of knowledge: Physical Sciences and Mathematics - Geosciences - Geology
• Principal Investigator: Luiz Carlos Ruiz Pessenda
• Grantee: Luiz Carlos Ruiz Pessenda
• Host Institution: Centro de Energia Nuclear na Agricultura (CENA). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Piracicaba , SP, Brazil
• Associated researchers: Daniel Marcos Bonotto ; José Albertino Bendassolli ; José Francisco Berrêdo Reis da Silva ; Kam-biu Liu ; Marcelo Cancela Lisboa Cohen

Abstract

Studies based on sedimentary features, pollen content, isotopic and radiocarbon dates have allowed to evaluate the influence of allogeneic mechanisms (sea level fluctuations, climate changes, tectonism,) and autogenic mechanisms (e.g. abandonment and reactivation of channels) on the dynamics of wetlands in the interior of the Amazon and mangroves along the Brazilian coast. Such interdisciplinary studies have evidenced the migration of mangroves on the continental shelf according to sea level rise since the Last Glacial Maximum, approximatelly 18000 years ago. At the same time, these forests expanded to northern and southern coasts as the temperature has risen (e.g. Cohen et al., 2014b, 2014c, 2015, 2016). Regarding the last century and decades, such process may be occurring due to emissions of greenhouse gases to atmosphere since the Industrial Revolution, triggering the migration of the isotherms toward the poles. This warming has caused an increase in the global sea level rise in recent decades (3.5 mm/year), with moderate estimates of 65 cm up to the end this century. Following this warming trend and sea level rise, mangroves should be migrating to temperate zones and to topographically higher sectors. In order to test the hypothesis of the mangrove expansion to more temperate latitudes due to recent global warming, this project intends to obtain pollen data, isotopic (13C and 15N) and elemental (C / N) characteristics as well as radiocarbon dates and sedimentation rates based on Pb-210 of sediment cores sampled from the southern and northern limits of the American mangroves (Santa Catarina-Brazil, Florida and Louisiana-US). Satellite/drone images and Lidar data will be used to trace the presence of mangroves in these new temperate climate boundaries on a century and decadal scale. These results will be compared with the equatorial mangrove dynamics (Marapanim- Pará). (AU)

Scientific publications

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(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

DE AZEVEDO, ALLANA QUEIROZ; JIMENEZ-ESPEJO, FRANCISCO J.; FRANCA, MARLON CARLOS; GARCIA-ALIX, ANTONIO; DA SILVA, FERNANDO A. BORGES; PESSENDA, LUIZ C. R.; COHEN, MARCELO C. L.; FONTES, NEUZA A.; PINHEIRO, VANESSA C.; MACARIO, KITA; et al. ydrological influence on the evolution of a subtropical mangrove ecosystem during the late Holocene from Babitonga Bay, Brazi. PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY, v. 574, JUL 15 2021. (11/00995-7, 20/13715-1, 17/03304-1)

COHEN, MARCELO C. L.; DE SOUZA, V, ADRIANA; LIU, KAM-BIU; RODRIGUES, ERIKA; YAO, QIANG; RYU, JUNGHYUNG; DIETZ, MARIANNE; PESSENDA, LUIZ C. R.; ROSSETTI, DILCE. Effects of the 2017-2018 winter freeze on the northern limit of the American mangroves, Mississippi River delta plain. Geomorphology, v. 394, DEC 1 2021. (20/13715-1)

COHEN, MARCELO C. L.; PINTO CAMARGO, PALOMA MARIA; PESSENDA, LUIZ C. R.; LORENTE, FLAVIO LIMA; DE SOUZA, V, ADRIANA; MARTINS CORREA, JOSE AUGUSTO; BENDASSOLLI, JOSE; DIETZ, MARIANNE. Effects of the middle Holocene high sea-level stand and climate on Amazonian mangroves. JOURNAL OF QUATERNARY SCIENCE, v. 36, n. 6, p. 1013-1027, AUG 2021. (20/13715-1)

RODRIGUES, ERIKA; COHEN, MARCELO CANCELA LISBOA; PESSENDA, LUIZ CARLOS R.; FRANCA, MARLON CARLOS; MAGALHAES, EVANDRO; YAO, QIANG. Poleward mangrove expansion in South America coincides with MCA and CWP: A diatom, pollen, and organic geochemistry study. QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS, v. 288, p. 12-pg., 2022-06-13. (20/13715-1)

DE AZEVEDO, ALLANA QUEIROZ; JIMENEZ-ESPEJO, FRANCISCO J.; FRANCA, MARLON CARLOS; GARCIA-ALIX, ANTONIO; DA SILVA, FERNANDO A. BORGES; PESSENDA, LUIZ C. R.; COHEN, MARCELO C. L.; FONTES, NEUZA A.; PINHEIRO, VANESSA C.; MACARIO, KITA; et al. Hydrological influence on the evolution of a subtropical mangrove ecosystem during the late Holocene from Babitonga Bay, Brazil. PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY, v. 574, p. 16-pg., 2021-05-22. (11/00995-7, 17/03304-1, 20/13715-1)

COHEN, MARCELO C. L.; PINTO CAMARGO, PALOMA MARIA; PESSENDA, LUIZ C. R.; LORENTE, FLAVIO LIMA; DE SOUZA, V, ADRIANA; MARTINS CORREA, JOSE AUGUSTO; BENDASSOLLI, JOSE; DIETZ, MARIANNE. Effects of the middle Holocene high sea-level stand and climate on Amazonian mangroves. JOURNAL OF QUATERNARY SCIENCE, JUL 2021. (20/13715-1)

LISBOA COHEN, MARCELO CANCELA; VIVAN DE SOUZA, ADRIANA; LIU, KAM-BIU; RODRIGUES, ERIKA; YAO, QIANG; RUIZ PESSENDA, LUIZ CARLOS; ROSSETTI, DILCE; RYU, JUNGHYUNG; DIETZ, MARIANNE. Effects of Beach Nourishment Project on Coastal Geomorphology and Mangrove Dynamics in Southern Louisiana, USA. REMOTE SENSING, v. 13, n. 14, JUL 2021. (20/13715-1)

CARDENAS, SERGIO M. M.; COHEN, MARCELO C. L.; RUIZ, DIANA P. C.; SOUZA, ADRIANA V.; GOMEZ-NEITA, JUAN. S.; PESSENDA, LUIZ C. R.; CULLIGAN, NICHOLAS. Death and Regeneration of an Amazonian Mangrove Forest by Anthropic and Natural Forces. REMOTE SENSING, v. 14, n. 24, p. 25-pg., 2022-12-01. (20/13715-1)

YAO, QIANG; COHEN, MARCELO; LIU, KAM-BIU; FAN, DAIDU; RODRIGUES, ERIKA; MAITI, KANCHAN; VIVAN DE SOUZA, ADRIANA; ANTONIO ARAGON-MORENO, ALEJANDRO; ROHLI, ROBERT; YIN, DONGXIAO; et al. Mangrove expansion at poleward range limits in North and South America: Late-Holocene climate variability or anthropocene global warming?. CATENA, v. 216, p. 13-pg., 2022-06-02. (20/13715-1)

NUNES, SERGIO. P. D. Q.; FRANCA, MARLON C. C.; COHEN, MARCELO C. L.; PESSENDA, LUIZ C. R.; RODRIGUES, ERIKA S. F.; MAGALHAES, EVANDRO A. S.; SILVA, FERNANDO A. B.. Assessment the Impacts of Sea-Level Changes on Mangroves of Ceara-Mirim Estuary, Northeastern Brazil, during the Holocene and Anthropocene. PLANTS-BASEL, v. 12, n. 8, p. 24-pg., 2023-04-01. (20/13715-1)