Large-scale dieback of mangroves in Australia’s Gulf of Carpentaria: a severe ecosystem response, coincidental with an unusually extreme weather event

By Norman C. Duke, J. Kovacs, Anthony D. Griffiths, L. Preece, D. J. Hill, P. V. Oosterzee, Jock R. Mackenzie, Hailey S. Morning, D. Burrows. 2017

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A global map of mangrove forest soil carbon at 30 m spatial resolution (2018, background): “The major drivers of loss are conversion for aquaculture, especially shrimp farming, agriculture and urban development (Alongi 2002, Valiela et al 2001, Spalding et al 2010, Richards and Friess 2016) but loss due to extreme climatic events are also becoming more common (Duke et al 2017).”
Global Mangrove Extent Change 1996-2020: Global Mangrove Watch Version 3.0 (2022, background): “A recent and extensive loss of mangroves in northern Australia, for example, has been tentatively linked to drought conditions related to climate change [14].”
Global declines in human‐driven mangrove loss (2020, background): “Substantial EWE-driven loss in the Gulf of Carpentaria, Northern Australia also coincided with climatic extremes such as drought and anomalously high temperatures in the region during that time (Duke et al., 2017).”