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|a Climate impacts on coastal and estuarine systems
take many forms and are dependent on the local conditions,
including those set by humans. We use a biocomplexity
framework to provide a perspective of the consequences of
climate change for coastal wetland ecogeomorphology. We
concentrate on three dimensions of climate change affects
on ecogeomorphology: sea level rise, changes in storm
frequency and intensity, and changes in freshwater, sediment,
and nutrient inputs. While sea level rise, storms,
sedimentation, and changing freshwater input can directly
impact coastal and estuarine wetlands, biological processes
can modify these physical impacts. Geomorphological
changes to coastal and estuarine ecosystems can induce
complex outcomes for the biota that are not themselves
intuitively obvious because they are mediated by networks
of biological interactions. Human impacts on wetlands
occur at all scales. At the global scale, humans are altering
climate at rapid rates compared to the historical and recent
geological record. Climate change can disrupt ecological
systems if it occurs at characteristic time scales shorter than
ecological system response and causes alterations in
ecological function that foster changes in structure or alter
functional interactions. Many coastal wetlands can adjust to
predicted climate change, but human impacts, in combination
with climate change, will significantly affect coastal
wetland ecosystems. Management for climate change must
strike a balance between that which allows pulsing of
materials and energy to the ecosystems and promotes
ecosystem goods and services, while protecting human
structures and activities. Science-based management
depends on a multi-scale understanding of these biocomplex
wetland systems. Causation is often associated with
multiple factors, considerable variability, feedbacks, and
interferences. The impacts of climate change can be
detected through monitoring and assessment of historical
or geological records. Attribution can be inferred through
these in conjunction with experimentation and modeling. A
significant challenge to allow wise management of coastal
wetlands is to develop observing systems that act at
appropriate scales to detect global climate change and its effects in the context of the various local and smaller scale
effects. |
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|a Alejandro Yanez-Arancibia. |
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