Process-based model explaining zonation patterns of mangrove species

In their new article published in the journal Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, Bathmann and colleagues examine the feedback between plant water use and pore water salinity in an arid mangrove ecosystem. They apply the mangrove model MANGA to study the effects of tides and transpiration on stand structure. Their model results, which reproduce differences in forest structure at an arid site, suggest a relationship between pore water salinity inputs and mangrove species zonation.

Bathmann, J., Peters, R., Reef, R., Berger, U., Walther, M., Lovelock, C. E. (2021): Modelling mangrove forest structure and species composition over tidal inundation gradients: The feedback between plant water use and porewater salinity in an arid mangrove ecosystem. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 308–309: 108547.