Mangroves thrive in tidally influenced environments and will be central to any discussion regarding the implications of sea‐level rise for coastal communities. Mangrove forests can respond to sea‐level rise by adjusting their position within a tidal frame that is transitioning upwards, and this response is dependent upon a range of hydrological, sedimentological and ecological factors. The availability of accommodation space, defined as the lateral and vertical space in which mineral and organic sediments and organic material from in situ vegetation can accumulate, is increasingly proposed as a means of conceptualizing the response of shorelines to sea‐level rise. Recent analyses demonstrated the significance accommodation space has on global carbon storage in coastal wetlands over the past few millennia, and likely influence on future carbon sequestration and coastal wetland resilience. Mangrove forest vulnerability is commonly indicated by comparing rates of substrate elevation change to rates of sea‐level rise, but these comparisons may overemphasize mangrove forest vulnerability to sea‐level rise as they do not adequately account for the resilience provided by mineral and organic sediments that previously filled accommodation space and increased substrate elevations beyond critical thresholds for submergence. This paper demonstrates that the geological concept of ‘accommodation space’ applied in a way that incorporates ecological processes and recognizes the full range of processes altering accommodation space may provide a unifying framework for integrating information between disciplines and increasing our understanding of the response of mangrove forests to sea‐level rise. This paper also defines available accommodation space as the space available for sediment accumulation; realized accommodation space as the space that has converted from being available, primarily due to sediment accumulation; and the boundary conditions delimiting both available and realized accommodation space (See Appendix I for the full list of definitions). It is anticipated that this paper will serve as a challenge for researchers across disciplines to collaborate, share and integrate knowledge so that the past is interpreted appropriately and integrated into models, and the best information is available to inform coastal planning and management.

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住宿空间作为评估红树林对相对海平面上升的反应的框架

红树林在受到潮汐影响的环境中壮成长，对于任何有关海平面上升对沿海社区的影响的讨论来说都是至关重要的。红树林可以通过调整其在向上过渡的潮汐架中的位置来对海平面上升做出响应，而这种响应取决于一系列水文，沉积和生态因素。容纳空间的可用性，定义为横向和垂直空间，其中矿物和有机沉积物以及有机物质来自原位越来越多地提出植被可以积累，作为概念化海岸线对海平面上升的响应的一种手段。最近的分析表明，住宿空间对过去几千年来沿海湿地的全球碳储存具有重要意义，并且可能影响未来的碳固存和沿海湿地的复原力。通常通过将底物海拔变化率与海平面上升率进行比较来表明红树林的脆弱性，但是这些比较可能过分强调了红树林对海平面上升的脆弱性，因为它们不足以说明矿物和有机沉积物提供的复原力。以前充满了容纳空间，并且增加了基材高度，使其超过了淹没的临界阈值。本文表明，“容纳空间”的地质概念以一种结合生态过程并认识到改变容纳空间的过程的完整方式的方式应用，可以为整合学科之间的信息和增进我们对红树林的响应的理解提供一个统一的框架。到海平面上升。本文还将可用的容纳空间定义为可用于沉积物堆积的空间。已实现的住宿空间，主要是由于沉积物的积累而转变为可利用的空间；以及界定可用和已实现的容纳空间的边界条件（完整的定义请参见附录I）。预计本文将对跨学科的研究人员进行协作提出挑战，