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Rapid greening in mangroves

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Two decades of global satellite observations reveal enhanced greening in mangrove forests relative to adjacent evergreen forests, which highlights important differences in the response of coastal and terrestrial ecosystems to climate change.

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Fig. 1: Primary productivity of mangrove forests shows a similar upward trend but with amplified year-to-year variability, relative to terrestrial forests.

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