Assessing coastal wetland vulnerability to sea-level rise along the northern Gulf of Mexico coast: Gaps and opportunities for developing a coordinated regional sampling network
Fig 4
The distribution of SET-MH stations across ecologically-relevant climatic gradients.
(A) minimum air temperature and (B) mean annual precipitation. SET-MH stations are shown via the vertical solid gray bars and left y axis. For interpretation within the context of coastal wetland transition zones, we also present established sigmoidal relationships between: (1) minimum temperature and the abundance of mangrove forests (solid black line and right y axis in A) [44]; and (2) mean annual precipitation and the coverage of wetland plants (solid black line and right y axis in B) [45]. Temperature and precipitation threshold zones are illustrated by the rectangles with light gray diagonal hatch lines in A and B, respectively.