Sea level rise killing trees on Atlantic coast, ghost forests visible from space
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The change will happen anyway - all we can do is speed up the environment adaptation by bringing in plants that will eventually find their way there anyway:
> A more radical approach would be to introduce marsh plants that are salt-tolerant in threatened zones. This strategy is controversial because it goes against the desire to try to preserve ecosystems exactly as they are.
> But if forests are dying anyway, having a salt marsh is a far better outcome than allowing a wetland to be reduced to open water. While open water isn’t inherently bad, it does not provide the many ecological benefits that a salt marsh affords. Proactive management may prolong the lifespan of coastal wetlands, enabling them to continue storing carbon, providing habitat, enhancing water quality and protecting productive farm and forest land in coastal regions.
As I understand, the transformation from one type of static biosphere to a different type of static biosphere requires many years of static conditions. It is the nature of a rapidly changing climate to reduce or eliminate static conditions.
If we get to a point where coastal civilization is overclaimed by the seas, then much man-made detritus will enter the oceans. Much of that will find it's way into the new salted land, impacting the transformation process.