Climate change is altering the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events. Quantifying ecosystem responses to extreme events at the landscape scale is critical for understanding and responding to climate-driven change but is constrained by limited data availability. Here, we integrated remote sensing with ground-based observations to quantify landscape-scale vegetation damage from an extreme climatic event. We used ground- and satellite-based black mangrove (Avicennia germinans) leaf damage data from the northern Gulf of Mexico (USA and Mexico) to examine the effects of an extreme freeze in a region where black mangroves are expanding their range. The February 2021 event produced coastal temperatures as low as -10 ℃ in some areas, exceeding thresholds for A. germinans damage and mortality. We used Sentinel-2 surface reflectance data to assess vegetation greenness before and after the freeze, along with ground-based observations of A. germinans leaf damage.
Citation Information
| Publication Year | 2023 |
|---|---|
| Title | Mangrove damage along northern Gulf of Mexico from extreme freeze event on February 2021 |
| DOI | 10.5066/P9C4E2CW |
| Authors | Melinda Martinez, Michael J Osland, James B Grace, Nicholas M Enwright, Camille L Stagg, Simen Kaalstad, Gordon H Anderson, Anna R Armitage, Just Cebrian, Karen L Cummins, Richard H Day, Donna J Devlin, Kenneth H Dunton, Laura C Feher, Alejandro Fierro-Cabo, Elena A. Flores, Andrew From, A Randall Hughes, David Kaplan, Amy K Langston, Christopher Miller, Charles E Proffitt, Nathan G F Reaver, Colt R Sanspree, Caitlin Snyder, Andrew P Stetter, Kathleen M Swanson, Jamie E Thompson, Carlos Zamora-Tovar |
| Product Type | Data Release |
| Record Source | USGS Digital Object Identifier Catalog |
| USGS Organization | Wetland and Aquatic Research Center |
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