Duke, Norman (2022) Climate change killed 40 million Australian mangroves in 2015. Here’s why they’ll probably never grow back. The Conversation, 28 July 2022.

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In the summer of 2015-2016, some 40 million mangroves shrivelled up and died across the wild Gulf of Carpentaria in northern Australia, after extremely dry weather from a severe El Niño event saw coastal water plunge 40 centimetres.

The low water level lasted about six months, and the mangroves died of thirst. Seven years later, they have yet to recover. My new research, shortly to be published in PLOS Climate, is the first to realise the full scale of this catastrophe, and understand why it occurred.

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Date Deposited:	06 Sep 2022 02:45
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