Rene Asenbaum, Elena Petrishcheva, Tereza Zelinková, Martin Racek, Vojtěch Janoušek, Fred Gaidies, Rainer Abart
{"title":"Secondary compositional zoning of garnet from the high-grade metamorphic Gföhl Unit, Moldanubian Zone: constraints on relative cation diffusivities and geodynamic processes","authors":"Rene Asenbaum, Elena Petrishcheva, Tereza Zelinková, Martin Racek, Vojtěch Janoušek, Fred Gaidies, Rainer Abart","doi":"10.1007/s00410-025-02268-8","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00410-025-02268-8","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The garnets in garnet pyroxenites from centimetre- to several-hundred-metre-sized mafic lenses embedded in felsic high-pressure granulites of the Gföhl Unit (Moldanubian Zone, Bohemian Massif) are relics of an early high-pressure–high-temperature metamorphic stage related to Variscan subduction and continental collision. Subsequent isothermal decompression to granulite-facies conditions led to the partial replacement of garnet by plagioclase-bearing assemblages. Associated with the partial replacement, a pronounced secondary compositional zoning developed in the relic garnets, which indicates relatively fast diffusion of Fe and Mg and comparatively slow diffusion of Ca. Based on inverse diffusion modelling, cooling rates in the range of 7–<span>(1501 ^circ )</span>C/Myr were estimated for the garnet pyroxenites, indicating rapid cooling and short-lived granulite-facies overprint after decompression. The petrological evidence is compatible with the extrusion of partially molten, buoyant felsic lithologies, which incorporated slivers of mafic lithologies <i>en route</i>. Through the heat they transported advectively, these lithologies produced perturbations of the thermal structure at mid-crustal levels, the decay times of which varied depending on the volumes of the hot material exhumed in different regions.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":526,"journal":{"name":"Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology","volume":"180 11","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2025-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s00410-025-02268-8.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145210545","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The walking moai hypothesis: Archaeological evidence, experimental validation, and response to critics","authors":"Carl P. Lipo, Terry L. Hunt","doi":"10.1016/j.jas.2025.106383","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2025.106383","url":null,"abstract":"The transport of Rapa Nui's (Easter Island) monumental <ce:italic>moai</ce:italic> statues has been debated for over a century. Based on a systematic analysis of 962 <ce:italic>moai</ce:italic>, with a focus on 62 road statues, combined with 3D modeling and experimental trials, we demonstrate that these multi-ton megaliths were designed for transport vertically in a controlled \"walking\" motion facilitated by their carved shapes. Our evidence includes distinctive morphological features of road <ce:italic>moai</ce:italic> (wide, D-shaped bases and forward lean), archaeological road characteristics (4.5m wide, concave cross-sections), non-random breakage patterns, and successful experimental validation using a precisely-scaled 4.35 metric ton replica based on road <ce:italic>moai</ce:italic> morphology. Our experiments revealed that the forward-leaning design enabled efficient transport, covering 100 m in 40 min with a team of 18 people—a significant improvement over earlier vertical transport attempts that used incorrectly proportioned <ce:italic>ahu moai</ce:italic> forms. Statistical analysis of the road <ce:italic>moai</ce:italic> distribution reveals patterns that are strongly consistent with transport failure: 51.6 % concentrate within 2 km of the Rano Raraku quarry, following an exponential decay pattern expected from mechanical failure processes rather than deliberate ceremonial placement. Despite empirical support, several scholars have challenged the walking hypothesis. We systematically address critiques regarding terrain constraints, rope availability, weathering patterns, and alternative transport mechanisms, demonstrating how objections fail to account for the comprehensive archaeological evidence supporting vertical transport. The walking method required minimal resources and labor compared to horizontal transport hypotheses, revealing sophisticated engineering rather than environmental destruction, and aligning with Rapa Nui oral traditions that describe <ce:italic>moai</ce:italic> \"walking\" from the quarry.","PeriodicalId":50254,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Archaeological Science","volume":"112 1","pages":"106383"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2025-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145242025","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Evidence of Power-Law Scaling Regimes for Nanoscale-Resolved Reaction Rates at Mineral-Water Interfaces","authors":"C. Recalcati, M. Riva, A. Guadagnini","doi":"10.1029/2025GL118357","DOIUrl":"10.1029/2025GL118357","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We report the first quantitative analysis of statistical scaling of dissolution rates driving nanoscale self-organization of the interface between a mineral and flowing water. Our study provides evidence of emergence of cross-over between two power-law scaling regimes characterized by distinct levels of persistence. We tie these to the action of nanoscale features of dissolution patterns and capture experimental behaviors through a new theoretical framework. This opens unprecedented avenues to analyze chemical weathering imprinting alterations of mineral-water interfaces.</p>","PeriodicalId":12523,"journal":{"name":"Geophysical Research Letters","volume":"52 19","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2025-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1029/2025GL118357","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145215703","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"PyramidMamba: Rethinking pyramid feature fusion with selective space state model for semantic segmentation of remote sensing imagery","authors":"Libo Wang, Dongxu Li, Sijun Dong, Xiaoliang Meng, Xiaokang Zhang, Danfeng Hong","doi":"10.1016/j.jag.2025.104884","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jag.2025.104884","url":null,"abstract":"Semantic segmentation, as a basic tool for remote sensing image understanding, plays a vital role in many Earth Observation (EO) applications. Nowadays, accurate semantic segmentation of remote sensing images remains a challenge due to the complex spatial–temporal scenes and multi-scale geo-objects. Driven by the wave of deep learning (DL), CNN– and Transformer-based semantic segmentation methods have been explored widely, and these two architectures both revealed the importance of multi-scale feature representation for strengthening semantic information of geo-objects. However, multi-scale feature fusion often comes with the semantic redundancy issue due to homogeneous semantic contents in pyramid features. To handle this issue, we propose a novel Mamba-based segmentation network, namely PyramidMamba. Specifically, we design a plug-and-play Mamba-based decoder, which develops a dense spatial pyramid pooling (DSPP) to encode rich multi-scale semantic features and a pyramid fusion Mamba (PFM) to reduce semantic redundancy in feature fusion. Ablation experiments illustrate the effectiveness and superiority of the proposed method in enhancing multi-scale feature representation as well as the great potential for real-time semantic segmentation. Moreover, our PyramidMamba yields state-of-the-art performance on four public datasets, i.e. the OpenEarthMap (70.8% mIoU), ISPRS Vaihingen (84.8% mIoU) and Potsdam (88.0% mIoU) datasets, and the LoveDA (54.8% mIoU) dataset.","PeriodicalId":50341,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation","volume":"20 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.5,"publicationDate":"2025-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145228759","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Keyu Li, Qingcheng Yu, Xudong Ma, Lu Wang, Ruihua Nie
{"title":"An Improved Physical Model for Open Channel Confluences: Bridging the Gap Between Laboratory and Field Observations","authors":"Keyu Li, Qingcheng Yu, Xudong Ma, Lu Wang, Ruihua Nie","doi":"10.1029/2025wr040229","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1029/2025wr040229","url":null,"abstract":"Despite decades of research on hydro‐morphodynamic processes at open‐channel confluences, significant discrepancies persist between flume experiments and field observations. This study investigated the underlying causes by compiling and comparing geometric and hydraulic parameters from both natural confluences and laboratory setups. The analysis suggested that these discrepancies largely stem from unrealistic boundary conditions commonly used in experimental designs. To address this issue, this study developed an improved physical model of concordant confluences that more accurately replicated the morpho‐hydraulic characteristics of natural confluences. Key features included a smooth downstream junction, a large post‐confluence width‐to‐depth ratio, downstream channel widening, representative junction angle and discharge ratio. This experiment avoided the unrealistic large separation zone and scour holes near the downstream junction corner caused by sharp‐angled junction. Large Reynolds stresses and turbulent kinetic energy within the shear layer primarily drove scour hole formation, while streamwise‐oriented vortical cells offered additional contributions. In contrast, flow acceleration along the main channel promoted scour step development through low‐intensity sediment redistribution. This study presented a more realistic and representative physical model for simulating hydro‐morphodynamics at confluences with concordant beds and helped bridge the gap between laboratory findings and field‐scale dynamics.","PeriodicalId":23799,"journal":{"name":"Water Resources Research","volume":"41 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2025-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145215602","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Manuel Pimenta Silva, Felix Marxer, Stepan Krashenninikov, Lennart Koch, Rebecca F. Zech, François Holtz, Peter Ulmer, Othmar Müntener
{"title":"The role of oxygen fugacity in hydrous basaltic phase equilibria: experimental constraints at 0.2 and 0.8 GPa","authors":"Manuel Pimenta Silva, Felix Marxer, Stepan Krashenninikov, Lennart Koch, Rebecca F. Zech, François Holtz, Peter Ulmer, Othmar Müntener","doi":"10.1007/s00410-025-02269-7","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00410-025-02269-7","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Crystallisation-differentiation drives arc magma evolution, yet discrepancies remain among field, geochemical and experimental evidence. Whereas other controls are better studied, the effect of fO<sub>2</sub>, beyond oxide stability, remains less constrained. We investigate fO<sub>2</sub>-pressure effects on olivine-clinopyroxene-spinel phase relations with implications for arc magmas. We conducted phase equilibria experiments at 200 MPa between 1010 and 1100 °C. We used basaltic compositions with different xMg* [MgO/(MgO + FeO<sup>tot</sup>)] (0.5 to 0.7) at multiple fO<sub>2</sub> conditions (NNO-0.5 to NNO + 2.3), deconvolving the effects of Fe<sup>3+</sup>/Fe<sup>2+</sup> and xMg<sup>eff</sup> [MgO/(MgO + FeO)] on phase equilibria. Additionally, we ran 800 MPa experiments between NNO-0.4 and NNO + 2.5 to explore the combined effects of fO<sub>2</sub> and pressure. At 200 MPa, increasing fO<sub>2</sub> (1) stabilises Fe<sup>3+</sup>-rich spinel, leading to SiO<sub>2</sub>-richer melts and, therefore, less pronounced ASI (alumina saturation index, ASI = Al<sub>2</sub>O<sub>3</sub>/(CaO + Na<sub>2</sub>O + K<sub>2</sub>O) molar) increase relative to SiO<sub>2</sub>, and (2) expands olivine stability relative to clinopyroxene in ol-cpx cotectic melts, resulting in lower ASI melts (for a given SiO<sub>2</sub> content) that better match arc rocks. This is only observed under spinel-absent conditions. The 800 MPa experiments reveal decreasing spinel stability with increasing pressure, while fO<sub>2</sub> has a negligible effect on the ol-cpx cotectic. This suggests that the previously documented pressure effect on the olivine-clinopyroxene equilibrium is stronger than the effect of fO<sub>2</sub>. Our results demonstrate that fO<sub>2</sub> increasingly influences the olivine-clinopyroxene cotectic equilibrium as pressure decreases. This supports models where decompression-driven polybaric crystallisation under oxidising conditions shapes arc magmatic compositions. The reported pressure-fO<sub>2</sub> interplay helps reconcile natural and experimental arc records.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":526,"journal":{"name":"Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology","volume":"180 11","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2025-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s00410-025-02269-7.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145210547","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"River flow response to changing electricity demand and centralized hydropower operations in the Paranapanema River basin, Brazil","authors":"Thais Fujita , Luz Adriana Cuartas , Juliana Andrade Campos , Peder Hjorth , Caluan Rodrigues Capozzoli , Edmilson Dias de Freitas , Cintia Bertacchi Uvo","doi":"10.1016/j.ejrh.2025.102815","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ejrh.2025.102815","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Study region</h3><div>The Paranapanema River Basin, located in southeastern Brazil, is characterized by a cascade of large hydropower plants regulated by a nationally coordinated dispatch system. This basin is a representative case of reservoir-regulated rivers in the country, where multiple dams interact to supply electricity while reshaping natural flow regimes.</div></div><div><h3>Study focus</h3><div>This study examines hydropower-induced variability in river discharge and reservoir volumes using multiresolution wavelet decomposition and signal reconstruction. By analyzing continuous records under operational conditions, the method isolates fluctuations from sub-daily to multi-annual scales. This approach moves beyond average-based analyses, providing a scale-specific view of hydropower modulation. It shows how discharge dynamics arise not only from cascade configuration but also from dispatch coordination, plant design, and hydrological conditions.</div></div><div><h3>New hydrological insights for the region</h3><div>Results show that flow variability patterns align with electricity demand profiles, drought episodes, and institutional milestones in the Brazilian power sector. Hydropower operations display distinct signatures at different time scales, highlighting the responsiveness and complexity of reservoir management. Reconstructing signals in original units improves interpretability and supports regulatory evaluation and energy planning. The proposed framework provides a standardized and reproducible way to assess variability in reservoir-regulated systems, enhancing comparability of hydropower assessments and identifying operational dynamics that shape river flow regimes. It also supports more adaptive and ecologically grounded approaches to hydropower governance in the Paranapanema Basin and beyond.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48620,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Hydrology-Regional Studies","volume":"62 ","pages":"Article 102815"},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2025-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145221767","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
C. E. J. Watt, N. P. Meredith, J. Wong, K. R. Murphy, I. J. Rae, S. Chakraborty, S. N. Bentley, O. Allanson, C. J. Rodger
{"title":"Occurrence Rates and Variability of Whistler-Mode Waves in the Plasma Trough","authors":"C. E. J. Watt, N. P. Meredith, J. Wong, K. R. Murphy, I. J. Rae, S. Chakraborty, S. N. Bentley, O. Allanson, C. J. Rodger","doi":"10.1029/2025JA034061","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1029/2025JA034061","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Numerical models of energetic electron behavior in the outer radiation belt require descriptions of the wave-particle interactions across the inner magnetosphere. Quasilinear diffusion coefficients describe gyro-resonant wave-particle interactions over large time- and length-scales but these must be constrained by observations to construct realistic radiation belt models. Recent work indicates the importance of identifying and including realistic spatiotemporal variation of diffusion coefficients. In this paper, we study the spatiotemporal variability of whistler-mode waves outside the plasmasphere, typically referred to as whistler-mode chorus. We separately consider the probability of (a) parts of the model domain being outside the plasmasphere, and (b) the probability of detecting wave activity should that part of the model domain be outside the plasmasphere. We discover that the spatiotemporal variability of whistler-mode waves significantly differs across the model domain; we propose that wave power variability in short wave intervals (<span></span><math>\u0000 <semantics>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mo>∼</mo>\u0000 <mn>5</mn>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 <annotation> ${sim} 5$</annotation>\u0000 </semantics></math> min) is a useful characteristic to distinguish between two types of whistler-mode waves, especially where their frequency ranges overlap. Our novel spatiotemporal variability analysis indicates that low variability waves are dayside exohiss whose typically high occurrence rate (<span></span><math>\u0000 <semantics>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mo>∼</mo>\u0000 <mn>0.8</mn>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 <annotation> ${sim} 0.8$</annotation>\u0000 </semantics></math>) decreases with substorm activity, and high variability waves are sporadic post-midnight/dawn sector substorm-driven chorus with a typical occurrence rate of 0.2. Further, although previous studies often combine the occurrence rates and wave characteristics into climatological averages of chorus wave power, this study highlights the importance of separating the study of occurrence rates and power of the waves, since each can have a different relationship with driving factors.</p>","PeriodicalId":15894,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics","volume":"130 10","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2025-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1029/2025JA034061","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145224324","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Incorporating Causality Into Deep Learning Architectures to Improve Flash Drought Forecasts","authors":"Sijie Tang, Shuo Wang, Jiping Jiang, Yi Zheng","doi":"10.1029/2024wr039470","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1029/2024wr039470","url":null,"abstract":"Soil moisture flash droughts present challenges to agriculture and ecosystems, leading to widespread socioeconomic impacts. Predicting and providing early warnings for these events remains difficult. We propose a novel deep learning framework, the ResAttCauRec model, which integrates an attention mechanism and additional causal information into a CNN‐LSTM (convolutional neural network with long short‐term memory) backbone to capture the dependence of soil moisture on spatial‐temporal meteorological variables. Our results demonstrate that the causality module acts as a regularization technique, enhancing model generalization and performance. This enables effective forecasts of flash droughts, achieving an F1 score of 0.41 compared to 0.06 for the baseline model. Model interpretation analysis reveals that the causality degree significantly improves predictive performance for key drivers including daily maximum temperature, evaporation, and surface pressure, alongside soil temperature and moisture. While normal droughts are influenced by long‐term temperature trends, flash droughts are more sensitive to rapid atmospheric changes. Our analysis also highlights a concerning trend of increasing drought complexity and intensification, complicating reliable predictions. This study offers valuable insights into flash drought onset mechanisms and advocates for enhanced predictive models that better support agricultural and ecological practices. Additionally, we introduce an effective approach to enhance data‐driven models by incorporating additional causal information, which not only facilitates forecast and interpretation of flash droughts but may also be extended to broader extreme weather events.","PeriodicalId":23799,"journal":{"name":"Water Resources Research","volume":"7 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2025-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145215546","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
S. Sreelekshmi , Aishath Farhath Ali , S. Bijoy Nandan , E.H. Aravind , Mohamad Saddam Hussain , K. Avarachen Mathew , Murat V. Ardelan
{"title":"Climate change-driven dieback triggers metal mobilization in mangroves: a case study from the Maldives","authors":"S. Sreelekshmi , Aishath Farhath Ali , S. Bijoy Nandan , E.H. Aravind , Mohamad Saddam Hussain , K. Avarachen Mathew , Murat V. Ardelan","doi":"10.1016/j.gr.2025.09.006","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.gr.2025.09.006","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Mangrove ecosystems play a vital role in mitigating trace metal pollution by acting as natural biofilters that trap and accumulate trace metals from surrounding sediments. However, climate change-induced stressors, such as sea level rise and salinity fluctuations, can disrupt their regulatory capacity. In March 2020, a large-scale dieback of <em>Bruguiera cylindrica</em> in northern Maldives occurred, attributed to extreme climatic conditions, sea level rise, and enhanced salinity. This study examines the variability of 8 trace metals in sediments and plant tissues across dieback and non-dieback zones, assessing the impact of climate change on metal bioavailability and accumulation. Sediment analysis revealed consistently higher metal concentrations in non-dieback zones, reflecting enhanced sediment retention by healthy stands, while dieback sites exhibited erosion and flushing of metals due to altered hydrodynamics. Pollution load and geoaccumulation indices indicated moderate to very high contamination, particularly for Cd, often linked to agricultural runoff and local anthropogenic inputs. <em>Bruguiera cylindrica</em> in dieback areas exhibited elevated metal uptake, particularly Cu and Cd, while non-dieback sites showed below-detection levels, suggesting stress-enhanced uptake and translocation of bioavailable metals. These findings revealed that climate-induced mangrove mortality not only weakens the sedimentary sink function but may also increase metal export and toxicity risks to adjacent marine systems. Large-scale dieback events in the Maldives parallel observations from Australia and Brazil, underscoring the global vulnerability of mangroves to climate extremes. For island nations, these results highlight the urgency of integrated strategies to mitigate climate impacts, regulate metal inputs, and restore mangrove resilience as critical defenses against coastal degradation and pollution.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":12761,"journal":{"name":"Gondwana Research","volume":"150 ","pages":"Pages 1-13"},"PeriodicalIF":7.2,"publicationDate":"2025-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145242558","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}