Chesapeake bay has taken on an haunted appearance. Our overheating planet helps to transform the region into a cemetery for cedar, pine and several types of hardwood trees with deciduous leaves, by Knowable Magazine.
What's going on?
While the world warms up, rolling higher sea, salt water encroaches along the world coast and in its estuaries. The invasion of sea water can exceed fresh water which gives life to the trees with persistent leaves and deciduous leaves. This happens in Chesapeake bay, and it does not go unnoticed. Scientists have published a report on salinization that has an impact on coastal ecosystems.
“The impact of the intrusion of salt water on coastal forests and agricultural land is generally understood as a flood based on the sea of a static terrestrial landscape, where ecosystems do not adapt or influence the intrusion of salt water”, ” according to to a study by an international team of scientists. “However, recent observations of the mortality of trees and crop yields has inspired new research -based research on hydrological, geomorphic, biotic and anthropogenic mechanisms.”
“When many of these forests die, instead of being replaced by a salt dating marsh … What really takes its place is a marsh of phragmites,” said the Forest ecologist at the University of Maryland in Princess Anne, and co-author of the annual Review of Marine Science, Stephanie Stotts ,, said Knowable magazine.
The Minnesota Aquatic Species Research Center describe Phragmites, also known as the common reed, such as “a large and densely growing perennial grass which can take care of large areas, moving the native vegetation and reducing the quality of the habitat for fish and fauna”.
The trees die slowly; Sometimes they need several decades to perish. It will take a long time to see the complete consequences of these lifeless forests. “We are about 50 years late”, ” said Stotts, by Knowable magazine.
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Why are ghosts important?
Ghost forests are the remains of a formerly vibrant woody ecosystem which has succumbed to the poisoning of invasive salt water. Forests have turned into marshes during the previous periods of sea level increase. Scientists emphasize that marshes have positive attributes. They are shelter Oysters, clams, shrimps and certain species of birds.
The problem with ghost forests is that they can disturb the carbon cycle. In other words, forests absorb more carbon pollution from the atmosphere than they release it. After the death of the trees, they can possibly contribute to the gases trapping heat in the atmosphere, supplying even more warming.
Living trees can also serve as a stamp for storms. Ghost forests increase vulnerability along the coasts of erosion and the wave of storms. Although extreme meteorological events have always existed, experts have found that the climate crisis induced by man superiimating these events, putting our communities in even more danger and devastating ecosystems.
What does salt water encroachment do?
Salt water encroachment along the world ribs accelerates as our overheated planet causes the ones upwards. Getting away from dirty energy sources with renewable options will help cool our planet and reduce the increase in sea level.
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