Short communication: Engineering properties of wetland plants with application to wave attenuation

Coastal Engineering

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 251-255

  Feagin, R A ^a,b   Irish, J L ^c   Moller I ^b   Williams, A M ^a   Colon Rivera R J ^a   Mousavi, M E ^c  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FITZWILLIAM COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

^c Texas AandM University   (United States)

Author keywords

Flume; Plant characteristics; Salt marsh; Wave attenuation; Wetland vegetation

Indexed keywords

FLUME; PLANT CHARACTERISTICS; SALT MARSH; WAVE ATTENUATION; WETLAND VEGETATION;

BENDING STRENGTH; ELASTIC MODULI; ELASTICITY; VEGETATION;

WETLANDS;

CANOPY; COASTAL ENGINEERING; FLUME EXPERIMENT; LABORATORY METHOD; NUMERICAL METHOD; SALTMARSH; VEGETATION; WAVE ATTENUATION; WETLAND;

EID: 78650595922     PISSN: 03783839     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.coastaleng.2010.10.003     Document Type: Article

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