Jun 12, 2020
New article about modelling the interplay between vegetation and water in mangroves
Typical zonation in a mangrove system due to the hypothesised effect of the flooding gradient and disturbed zonation (red); Figure and caption taken from Peters et al. 2020 (https://doi.org/10.1007/s11273-020-09733-0)
The article provides a review on concepts of mangrove stand modelling and presents shortcomings and future challanges. The authors propose to couple above- and below-ground processes to create more realistic mangrove models (see the accompanying paper by Bathmann et al. 2020 for such a coupled vegetation-groundwater model).
The full article can be found here (Open Access):
Peters, R., Walther, M., Lovelock, C., Jiang, J., Berger, U. (2020). The interplay between vegetation and water in mangroves: new perspectives for mangrove stand modelling and ecological research. Wetlands Ecology and Management.