Plant growth strategies directly affect biogeomorphology of estuaries

River, Coastal and Estuarine Morphodynamics: RCEM 2007 - Proceedings of the 5th IAHR Symposium on River, Coastal and Estuarine Morphodynamics

Volumn 1, Issue , 2008, Pages 285-292

  Bouma, T J ^a   Friedrichs, M ^b   Van Wesenbeeck, B K ^a   Brun, F G ^a   Temmerman, S ^c   De Vries, M B ^d   Graf, G ^b   Herman, P M J ^a  

^a NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^d WL DELFT HYDRAULICS   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOMORPHOLOGY; GROWTH STRATEGY; HYDRODYNAMIC FORCES; HYDRODYNAMIC MODEL; HYDRODYNAMIC MODELING; PLANT GROWTH; SEAGRASSES; STRIKING EFFECTS; UNIDIRECTIONAL FLOW; VASCULAR PLANT; VEGETATION TYPE;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; GEOMORPHOLOGY; HYDRODYNAMICS; LANDFORMS; PLANTS (BOTANY); RIVERS; STRATEGIC PLANNING; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ESTUARIES;

EID: 55949110559     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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