Widespread mangrove damage resulting from the 2017 Atlantic mega hurricane season

Comprised of 17 named tropical storms, 6 of which were major hurricanes, the 2017 Atlantic hurricane season ranked as one of the most damaging and costly hurricane seasons on record. In addition to socio-economic impacts, many previous studies have shown that important coastal ecosystems like mangro...

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Main Authors:	Taillie, Paul J., Roman-Cuesta, Rosa, Lagomasino, David, Cifuentes-Jara, Miguel, Fatoyinbo, Temilola, Lesley E, Ott, Poulter, Benjamin
Format:	Artículo
Language:	Inglés
Published:	2021
Subjects:	HUMEDALES SENSORES REMOTOS CICLONES MANGLARES HURACANES ECOSISTEMA ZONA COSTERA EROSION BIODIVERSIDAD CONTAMINACION DEL AGUA TORMENTAS
Online Access:	https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ab82cf https://repositorio.catie.ac.cr/handle/11554/10312

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spelling	RepoCATIE103122022-08-05T18:50:23Z Widespread mangrove damage resulting from the 2017 Atlantic mega hurricane season Taillie, Paul J. Roman-Cuesta, Rosa Lagomasino, David Cifuentes-Jara, Miguel Fatoyinbo, Temilola Lesley E, Ott Poulter, Benjamin HUMEDALES SENSORES REMOTOS CICLONES MANGLARES HURACANES ECOSISTEMA ZONA COSTERA EROSION BIODIVERSIDAD CONTAMINACION DEL AGUA TORMENTAS Comprised of 17 named tropical storms, 6 of which were major hurricanes, the 2017 Atlantic hurricane season ranked as one of the most damaging and costly hurricane seasons on record. In addition to socio-economic impacts, many previous studies have shown that important coastal ecosystems like mangroves are shaped by severe storms. However, little is known about how the cumulative effects of storms over entire hurricane seasons affect mangroves across large regions. We used satellite imagery from the entire Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico region to show that 2017 resulted in disproportionate mangrove damage compared to baseline responses over the previous 8 years. Specifically, we observed 30 times more mangrove damage, via a reduction in the normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI), during 2017 compared to any of the eight previous hurricane seasons, and most (72%) of this damage persisted throughout the 7 month post-hurricane season period as indicated by no NDVI recovery. Furthermore, wind speed, rainfall, and canopy height data showed that mangrove damage primarily resulted from high maximum wind speeds, but flooding (cumulative rainfall), previous storm history, and mangrove structure (canopy height) were also important predictors of damage. While mangroves are known to be resilient to hurricane impacts, our results suggest that increasingly frequent mega-hurricane seasons in the Caribbean region will dramatically alter mangrove disturbance dynamics. 2021-02-17T17:18:18Z 2021-02-17T17:18:18Z 2020 Artículo https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ab82cf https://repositorio.catie.ac.cr/handle/11554/10312 en Environ. Res. Lett, 15(6) info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess application/pdf
institution	Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza
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language	Inglés
topic	HUMEDALES SENSORES REMOTOS CICLONES MANGLARES HURACANES ECOSISTEMA ZONA COSTERA EROSION BIODIVERSIDAD CONTAMINACION DEL AGUA TORMENTAS
spellingShingle	HUMEDALES SENSORES REMOTOS CICLONES MANGLARES HURACANES ECOSISTEMA ZONA COSTERA EROSION BIODIVERSIDAD CONTAMINACION DEL AGUA TORMENTAS Taillie, Paul J. Roman-Cuesta, Rosa Lagomasino, David Cifuentes-Jara, Miguel Fatoyinbo, Temilola Lesley E, Ott Poulter, Benjamin Widespread mangrove damage resulting from the 2017 Atlantic mega hurricane season
description	Comprised of 17 named tropical storms, 6 of which were major hurricanes, the 2017 Atlantic hurricane season ranked as one of the most damaging and costly hurricane seasons on record. In addition to socio-economic impacts, many previous studies have shown that important coastal ecosystems like mangroves are shaped by severe storms. However, little is known about how the cumulative effects of storms over entire hurricane seasons affect mangroves across large regions. We used satellite imagery from the entire Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico region to show that 2017 resulted in disproportionate mangrove damage compared to baseline responses over the previous 8 years. Specifically, we observed 30 times more mangrove damage, via a reduction in the normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI), during 2017 compared to any of the eight previous hurricane seasons, and most (72%) of this damage persisted throughout the 7 month post-hurricane season period as indicated by no NDVI recovery. Furthermore, wind speed, rainfall, and canopy height data showed that mangrove damage primarily resulted from high maximum wind speeds, but flooding (cumulative rainfall), previous storm history, and mangrove structure (canopy height) were also important predictors of damage. While mangroves are known to be resilient to hurricane impacts, our results suggest that increasingly frequent mega-hurricane seasons in the Caribbean region will dramatically alter mangrove disturbance dynamics.
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author	Taillie, Paul J. Roman-Cuesta, Rosa Lagomasino, David Cifuentes-Jara, Miguel Fatoyinbo, Temilola Lesley E, Ott Poulter, Benjamin
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author_sort	Taillie, Paul J.
title	Widespread mangrove damage resulting from the 2017 Atlantic mega hurricane season
title_short	Widespread mangrove damage resulting from the 2017 Atlantic mega hurricane season
title_full	Widespread mangrove damage resulting from the 2017 Atlantic mega hurricane season
title_fullStr	Widespread mangrove damage resulting from the 2017 Atlantic mega hurricane season
title_full_unstemmed	Widespread mangrove damage resulting from the 2017 Atlantic mega hurricane season
title_sort	widespread mangrove damage resulting from the 2017 atlantic mega hurricane season
publishDate	2021
url	https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ab82cf https://repositorio.catie.ac.cr/handle/11554/10312
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Widespread mangrove damage resulting from the 2017 Atlantic mega hurricane season

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