Predation and secondary foundation species play crucial roles in structuring sessile mangrove prop root communities. However, their relative importance and their interactions across biogeographic gradients remain poorly understood. This study investigated the impact of predation and secondary foundation species on mangrove prop root epibiont assemblages along a latitudinal gradient in Florida. Predator exclusion treatments wer...

Climate change is altering species’ range limits and transforming ecosystems. For example, warming temperatures are leading to the range expansion of tropical, cold-sensitive species at the expense of their cold-tolerant counterparts. In some temperate and subtropical coastal wetlands, warming winters are enabling mangrove forest encroachment into salt marsh, which is a major regime shift that has significant ecological and so...

Mangroves are an ecological assemblage of trees and shrubs adapted to grow in intertidal environments along tropical, subtropical, and warm temperate coasts. Despite repeated demonstrations of their ecologic and economic value, multiple stressors including nutrient over‐enrichment threaten these and other coastal wetlands globally. These ecosystems will be further stressed if tropical storm intensity and frequency increase in...