Spatial Differences of Cold Tolerance in Black Mangrove
Project Lead: Katelyn Overstreet (PhD Graduate Researcher)
Katelyn tending her mangrove seedlings prior to the start of the experiment
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This work will:
-Compare tolerance and recovery of Black Mangrove (Avicennia germinans) seedlings from across their range limit (Texas, Louisiana, and Florida) to freeze events in a common greenhouse setting. With some 1,900 seedlings from 7 different locations throughout the southeast this experiment is getting underway this summer. Many thanks to our fantastic colleagues who have been willing to send propagules from multiple different locations. In the southeastern US coastal wetlands transition between temperate salt marshes and sub-tropical and tropical mangroves. Freeze events provide the traditional control on this critical ecotone, but with climate change it is expect that they will expand into new areas as freeze events become less frequent and severe. |
George Spellman (Undergraduate Researcher with the Sloey Lab) helping to plant mangroves into pots
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