Impacts of sea level rise on an area of significant tidal variation

Abstract

Brazil is the second country in the total mangrove area with 13,000 km2 and also holds the largest continuous area of mangrove forest in the world that is located in the coast of the legal Amazon area with approximately 7,591.09 km2. The model developed in this paper is computer model to simulate the mangrove pattern of response to sea-level rise (SLR). During the modeling experiment it was possible to observe that the mangrove migrated to areas under little influence of anthropogenic uses and that present propitious conditions for the colonization of the SLR elevation were the ones located further from the anthropogenic uses. In the Brazilian coastal zone, modeling experiments can be used to aid decision-making and the formation of mitigation measures to climate change, through management tools of the soil division, already in use by existing legislation, such as: the cities master plan, coastal zoning and economic ecological zoning.