Climate change, hurricanes and tropical storms, and rising sea level in coastal wetlands

Ecological Applications

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 770-801

  Michener, William K ^a,b   Blood, Elizabeth R ^a,b   Bildstein, Keith L ^c   Brinson, Mark M ^d   Gardner, Leonard R ^e  

^a JOSEPH W JONES ECOLOGICAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^c Hawk Mountain Sanctuary   (United States)

^d EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Coastal wetlands in southeastern United States; Colonial waterbirds and hurricanes; Comparative studies, conceptual models of hurricanes; Moisture continuum model; Sea level rise; Space for time substitution; Tropical storms

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATIC CHANGE; COASTAL WETLAND; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; HURRICANE; HURRICANE HUGO; SEA LEVEL RISE; SEA-LEVEL CHANGE; STORM; WETLAND; WETLANDS;

USA, (SOUTHEAST);

EID: 0030613918     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/1051-0761(1997)007[0770:CCHATS]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Review

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