Mass tree mortality leads to mangrove peat collapse at Bay Islands, Honduras after Hurricane Mitch

By D. Cahoon, Philippe F. Hensel, J. Rybczyk, K. McKee, C. Proffitt, B. Perez. 2003

469 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Earth-Surface Processes, Ecology, Plant Science

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/3f4c72643ce51e571b4e8061d6181c5e004e0cc0

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In Earth-Surface Processes

1. K. McKee
2. Sunny L. Jardine

In Ecology

1. D. Cahoon
2. H. Eugene Stanley
3. Tomislav Hengl
4. K. McKee
5. Jonathan Sanderman
6. A. Davy
7. P. Ermgassen
8. Peter I. Macreadie

In Plant Science

1. K. McKee

Citations in the corpus

• Network resilience (2020, background): “For example, the presence of mangrove biomass could promote sudden depositions during cyclones, hurricanes, or tsunamis [111, 112], and lo-”
• Mangrove Ecosystems: A Global Biogeographic Perspective (2017, unknown): “Root productivity and BGB accumulation contribute to soil volume and consequently soil elevation change in mangrove wetlands (Cahoon et al. 2003; McKee et al. 2007; McKee 2011), particularly in carbonate settings (Lynch et al.”
• A global map of mangrove forest soil carbon at 30 m spatial resolution (2018, background): “However, mangrove degradation and loss due to over harvesting for fuelwood (Jones et al 2015) or due to natural disturbance (Cahoon et al 2003) likely leads to more moderate emissions as decomposition and erosion exceed new plant carbon inputs.”
• How Plants Influence Resilience of Salt Marsh and Mangrove Wetlands to Sea-Level Rise (2020, background): “Shear strength also decreases with soil depth and fewer live roots (Cahoon et al. 2003; Comeaux 2010; Turner 2011; Graham and Mendelssohn 2014), further implicating the influence of plant roots on soil strength.”
• Micronesian Mangrove Forest Structure and Tree Responses to a Severe Typhoon (2010, background): “Most studies on the impacts of tropical cyclones on ecosystems have been conducted in the southern United States (Tilmant et al. 1994, Davis et al. 2004), the Caribbean (Sherman et al. 2001, Ostertag et al. 2003), and Central America (Fenner 1991, Cahoon et al. 2003 ).”
• Root anchorage and its significance for submerged plants in shallow lakes (2005, background): “There have been few measurements in wetlands but the shear strengths in a mangrove ecosystem ranged from 2.5 to 46 kPa (Cahoon et al. 2003).”
• Global declines in human‐driven mangrove loss (2020, background): “Mass tree mortality leads to mangrove peat collapse at Bay Islands, Honduras after Hurricane Mitch.”