Our investigations of the 2015 mass dieback of mangroves in Australia’s Gulf of Carpentaria revealed an additional threat from greenhouse warming [14, 15].

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posted on 2022-08-01, 17:24 authored by Norman Clive Duke, Jock R. Mackenzie, Adam D. Canning, Lindsay B. Hutley, Adam J. Bourke, John M. Kovacs, Riley Cormier, Grant Staben, Leo Lymburner, Emma Ai

The three images of shoreline mangroves near Limmen Bight River in the Gulf highlight the situation: A) prior to 2015, healthy canopies of largely Avicennia marina trees; B) in late 2018, standing dead trees killed after the 2015 desiccation event; and C) in late 2019, catastrophic scouring caused by Category 3 Tropical Cyclone ‘Owen’ (Image source: photographs by NCD).

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