The mutual influence of biotic and abiotic components on the long-term ecomorphodynamic evolution of salt-marsh ecosystems

Geomorphology

Volumn 126, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 269-278

  D'Alpaos, Andrea ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Ecomorphodynamics; Halophytic vegetation; Salt marshes; Sea level rise

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; COASTAL MORPHOLOGY; ECOMORPHOLOGY; ESTUARINE ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; MORPHODYNAMICS; NUMERICAL MODEL; SALTMARSH; SEA LEVEL CHANGE;

EID: 79551714668     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2010.04.027     Document Type: Article

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