Modeling the influence of a young mussel bed on fine sediment dynamics on an intertidal flat in the Wadden Sea

Ecological Engineering

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 145-153

  van Leeuwen, B ^a,b   Augustijn, D C M ^b   van Wesenbeeck, B K ^c   Hulscher, S J M H ^b   de Vries, M B ^b,c,d  

^a Svašek Hydraulics ^*  (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^c DELTARES   (Netherlands)

^d DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Mussel bed, Mussel, Wadden Sea, Intertidal, Fine sediment, Biogeomorphology, Modeling

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE DEPOSITION; BIOGEOMORPHOLOGY; DELFT3D; DEPOSITED MATERIALS; ECOLOGICAL ENGINEERING; ECOSYSTEM ENGINEERING; FILTER-FEEDING; FINE SEDIMENT DYNAMICS; FINE SEDIMENTS; HYDRAULIC ROUGHNESS; INTERTIDAL FLAT; MORPHOLOGICAL MODEL; MUDFLATS; PROCESS-BASED MODELS; QUANTITATIVE MODELING; SUSPENDED SEDIMENT; TEST CASE; WADDEN SEA;

ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; GEOMORPHOLOGY; SEDIMENTOLOGY;

OCEAN HABITATS;

BIVALVE; ECOSYSTEM ENGINEERING; FILTER FEEDING; FINE GRAINED SEDIMENT; FLOW VELOCITY; GEOMORPHOLOGY; HYDRODYNAMICS; INTERTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; PATCHINESS; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTATION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; NORTH SEA; WADDEN SEA;

EID: 74149085259     PISSN: 09258574     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoleng.2009.01.002     Document Type: Article

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