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Area of Science:

  • Coastal Ecology
  • Geology
  • Climate Change Science

Background:

  • Tidal marshes are vital ecosystems threatened by rising sea levels.
  • Marsh survival depends on vertical accretion keeping pace with relative sea-level rise (RSLR).
  • Ecosystem retreat occurs when RSLR outpaces marsh accretion.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To assess the vulnerability of British tidal marshes to RSLR.
  • To analyze Holocene marsh evolution records to determine retreat thresholds.
  • To project future marsh loss risk under different RSLR scenarios.

Main Methods:

  • Analysis of over 780 Holocene tidal marsh reconstructions from Great Britain.
  • Examination of transgressive (retreat) and regressive (expansion) marsh contacts.
  • Conditional probability analysis of marsh retreat based on Holocene RSLR rates.

Main Results:

  • Holocene RSLR rates in Great Britain varied from -7.7 to 15.2 mm/yr.
  • Marshes are nine times more likely to retreat than expand at RSLR rates ≥7.1 mm/yr.
  • Significant risk of tidal marsh loss predicted for the 21st century.

Conclusions:

  • Future RSLR poses a major threat to British tidal marshes.
  • Under Representative Concentration Pathway (RCP) 8.5, all of Great Britain faces >80% probability of marsh retreat by 2100.
  • Southern and eastern England may experience marsh retreat probability >80% by 2040.