Mangrove responses to droughts since the little ice age in the Colombian Caribbean

Mangroves are ecosystems that are seriously threatened by climate change, particularly sea level rise and an increase of droughts. They are resilient to short droughts but their response to longer ones remains arguable. In this work, we studied the responses of R. mangle dominated forests on a carbonate island (El Rosario Island) to climate anomalies and their drivers at inter-annual, decadal and inter-decadal scales during the last centuries....