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Response of Mangrove Development to Air Temperature Variation over the Past 3000 Years in Qinzhou Bay, Tropical China
Frontiers in Earth Science ( IF 2.9 ) Pub Date : 2021-05-05 , DOI: 10.3389/feart.2021.678189 Yao Zhang , Xianwei Meng , Peng Xia , Zhen Li
Frontiers in Earth Science ( IF 2.9 ) Pub Date : 2021-05-05 , DOI: 10.3389/feart.2021.678189 Yao Zhang , Xianwei Meng , Peng Xia , Zhen Li
Mangroves, a blue carbon ecosystem between land and ocean in the (sub)tropics, are sensitive to changes in climate and the sea level. It is imperative to reconstruct the historical dynamics of their development to predict the fate of mangrove ecosystems in the backdrop of rapid global changes. This study analyzes records of the sources of organic matter from sediment core Q43 of Qinzhou Bay in tropical China by using the endmember mixing model based on stable organic carbon isotopes and C/N ratio. Mangrove-derived organic matter (MOM) is regarded as a reliable indicator for reconstructing the historical development of mangroves. The variations in MOM in Qinzhou Bay over the past ~3000 cal yr BP indicate that mangrove forests underwent two periods of flourishment: ~2200–1750 cal yr BP and ~1370–600 cal yr BP, as well as three periods of deterioration: ~3000–2200 cal yr BP, ~1750–1370 cal yr BP, and ~600–0 cal yr BP. Of factors that might have been influential, changes in the relative sea level and the regional hydrological environment (e.g., seawater temperature, salinity, and hydrodynamic conditions) did not appear to have notable effects on mangrove flourishing/degradation. However, climate change, especially the variation in air temperature, formed the primary factor controlling mangrove development. The stages of mangrove flourishing/deterioration corresponded to the warm/cold periods of the climate, respectively. Noteworthy is that the rapid rise in air temperature during the Anthropocene warm period should have promoted mangrove development, but the increasing intensity of human activity has reversed this tendency leading to the degradation of mangroves.
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