A drowned future for coastal ecosystems

Aug 07, 2023

Qiang He is in the Ministry of Education Key Laboratory for Biodiversity Science and Ecological Engineering, National Observations and Research Station for Wetland Ecosystems of the Yangtze Estuary, Fudan University, Shanghai 200438, China.

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Humans have gravitated towards coastlines for millennia and depend on coastal ecosystems such as tidal marshes, mangroves and coral reefs for fisheries, storm protection and recreation1. Writing in Nature, Saintilan et al.2 shed light on what the future under climate change might mean for these ecosystems.

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doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-023-02595-5

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