Retrospective and prospective model simulations of sea level rise impacts on Gulf of Mexico coastal marshes and forests in Waccasassa Bay, Florida

Climatic Change

Volumn 107, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 35-57

  Geselbracht, Laura ^a   Freeman, Kathleen ^a   Kelly, Eugene ^a   Gordon, Doria R ^a   Putz, Francis E ^b  

^a THE NATURE CONSERVANCY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COASTAL FOREST; COASTAL HABITATS; COASTAL MARSH; COASTAL WETLAND SYSTEMS; FIELD PLOT; FLORIDA; GULF OF MEXICO; HINDCASTS; HUMAN POPULATION; MODEL RESULTS; MODEL SIMULATION; NET GAIN; NET LOSS; SEA LEVEL RISE; TIDAL FLAT;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; WETLANDS;

SEA LEVEL;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; COASTAL WETLAND; ELEVATION; HINDCASTING; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; VULNERABILITY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; FLORIDA [UNITED STATES]; GULF OF MEXICO; UNITED STATES; WACCASASSA BAY;

EID: 79958841696     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-011-0084-y     Document Type: Article

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