Effect of Spartina anglica stems on near-bed hydrodynamics, sediment erodability and morphological changes on an intertidal mudflat

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 362, Issue , 2008, Pages 45-57

  Widdows, John ^a   Pope, Nick D ^a   Brinsley, Mary D ^a  

^a PLYMOUTH MARINE LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Hydrodynamics; Intertidal; Morphology; Salt marsh; Sediment erosion; Spartina anglica; Waves

Indexed keywords

ACCRETION; CLIMATE CHANGE; EROSION; HYDRODYNAMICS; INTERTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; MORPHOLOGY; MUDFLAT; SALTMARSH; SEAGRASS; STEM; WAVE ACTION; WIND VELOCITY;

ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; TAVY ESTUARY; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

SPARTINA; SPARTINA ANGLICA;

EID: 47949122072     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps07448     Document Type: Article

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