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The inter-specific resilience among mangrove species to sea level rise (SLR) is a key to design conservation strategies for this economically important ecosystem that is among the most vulnerable to SLR. Tectonic processes can cause sudden increases or drops in sea level due to subsidence or uplift of the land surface, which can also provide insights for the mangrove community responses to rapid sea level change. This study aimed to investigate the responses of mangrove species to rapid SLR caused by land subsidence of 1.1 m during the 2004 Sumatra-Andaman earthquake at Car Nicobar Island. The  Rhizophora  spp. showed remarkable resilience to this rapid SLR, while the landward mangrove vegetation comprising  Bruguiera  spp.,  Lumnitzera  spp.,  Sonneratia  spp. etc., were unable to survive. Also,  Rhizophora  spp. establishment in the previous landward mangrove zones was more rapid than the landward mangrove species establishment in the previous terrestrial zones. The observed resilience of  Rhizophora  spp. may be due to the local specific geological legacy and species-specific ecological processes. However, further studies focusing on microcosm experiments to understand the  Rhizophora  spp. resilience to rapid SLR at the study site is required to strengthen these observations.

Mangrove community response to subsidence inflicted sea level change in Car Nicobar Island, India