Cintrón-Molero, Gilberto, Schaeffer-Novelli, Yara, Rovai, André S. and Moraes de Oliveira Abuchahla, Guilherme ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0314-2699 (2023) Chapter 18 - The Mangrove-Salt Marsh Complex: A Dynamic Landscape Approach. In: Brazilian Mangroves and Salt Marshes. . Springer Nature Switzerland AG, Cham, pp. 365-380. ISBN 978-3-031-13485-2 DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-13486-9_18.

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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.

Document Type:	Book chapter
Programme Area:	PA4
Research affiliation:	Ecology > Mangrove Ecology
DOI:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-13486-9_18
ISSN:	2520-1077
Date Deposited:	08 Apr 2025 15:37
Last Modified:	15 Apr 2025 15:50
URI:	http://cris.leibniz-zmt.de/id/eprint/5291

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