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Decreases in mangrove productivity and marsh die-off due to temporary increase in salinity, a case in Mexico

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Mangroves are coastal ecosystems dependent on saline water conditions, although freshwater is seasonally present in most types of mangroves. The riparian mangroves have a greater influence of freshwater than salty water, reducing saline stress and allowing greater productivity and diversity. As they are associated with freshwater channels, their hydrology makes them both a source and a sink for sediments, nutrients, and organic matter. The wetlands adjacent to riparian mangroves are mainly freshwater swamps or marshes. To monitor the composition and abundance of the vegetation and the production of litter and roots in the midterm, 27 monitoring units were monitored (22 in mangroves, five in wetlands) in two periods (2015–2016 and 2018–2019). In them, we evaluated biotic characteristics and root production annually, and monthly the litter production and pore and river water salinity. We detected a gradient of salinity spatially and temporally. The salinity gradually decreased as the distance to the river increased. In the winter of 2018–2019 saline intrusion increased the interstitial and river water values by an average of 10 (interstitial water) and 16‰, (river water). This increase caused a significant decrease in litter and root production and augmented the cover of Laguncularia racemosa (freshwater marsh), mortality of herbaceous species (Acrostichum danaeifolium, Typha domingensis, Phragmites australis), and tree species such as Annona glabra and Acoelorraphe wrightii.

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To the Comisión Nacional para el Conocimiento y Uso de la Biodiversidad (CONABIO) for financing projects LM001 and LM020. To Roberto Monroy for preparing the map of the study site. To the students of Marine Biology at the Universidad del Carmen (UNACAR) for their voluntary support in the field work and in the laboratory: Cinthia F. Arjona Jiménez, Yammilet D. Balboa Nieto, Claudia M. Bello de la Cruz, Pedro Castellano Pérez, Andrés Cruz Quintana, Johnny C. de la Cruz Dantorie, Monserrat Medina Acevedo, Kevin D. Méndez Martínez, Daniel A. Tovar Montalvo. To Citlalli G. Garrido Abreu and Thelma P. López García, for their technical support.

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Conceptualization and Methodology: HLR, VEEG, and PMC; Field work: HLR and VEEG; Analysis of data: HLR; Writing and Original draft preparation: HLR, VEEG, and PMC. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.

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López Rosas, H., Espejel González, V.E. & Moreno-Casasola, P. Decreases in mangrove productivity and marsh die-off due to temporary increase in salinity, a case in Mexico. Hydrobiologia 850, 4497–4514 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10750-023-05187-6

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