Influence of the 2015–2016 El Niño on the record-breaking mangrove dieback along northern Australia coast

Abstract This study investigates the underlying climate processes behind the largest recorded mangrove dieback event along the Gulf of Carpentaria coast in northern Australia in late 2015. Using satellite-derived fractional canopy cover (FCC), variation of the mangrove canopies during recent decades...

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Main Authors: S. Abhik, Pandora Hope, Harry H. Hendon, Lindsay B. Hutley, Stephanie Johnson, Wasyl Drosdowsky, Josephine R. Brown, Norman C. Duke
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2021-10-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-99313-w