The salinity gradient influences on the inundation tolerance thresholds of mangrove forests

Ecological Engineering

Volumn 51, Issue , 2013, Pages 59-65

  Yang, Sheng Chi ^a   Shih, Shang Shu ^b   Hwang, Gwo Wen ^b   Adams, Janine B ^c   Lee, Hong Yuan ^b,d   Chen, Chang Po ^e  

^a NATIONAL APPLIED RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NELSON MANDELA METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^d NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^e Taiwan Wetland Society   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Dispersal; Kandelia obovata; Restoration; Simulation; Tanshui river; Wetland; Zonation

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL MEAN; ARTIFICIAL FOREST; BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION; DISPERSAL; DISPERSION MODELS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS; FLOOD PREVENTION; FLOW AREA; HYDROLOGICAL REGIME; KANDELIA OBOVATA; LOCAL TOPOGRAPHY; LOSS RATES; MANAGEMENT PROJECTS; MANGROVE FOREST; MANGROVE SPECIES; RESTORATION PROJECT; RIVER SYSTEMS; SALINITY GRADIENTS; SEA LEVEL RISE; SIMULATION; ZONATION;

FLOOD CONTROL; FLOODS; FORESTRY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; RESTORATION; RIVERS; SALINITY MEASUREMENT; SEA LEVEL; WETLANDS;

CONSERVATION;

DICOTYLEDON; DISPERSION; ECOLOGICAL ZONATION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION; FLOODING; HABITAT LOSS; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; MANGROVE; RIPARIAN FOREST; SALINITY; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; THINNING; THRESHOLD; TOLERANCE; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT; WETLAND;

CONSERVATION; FLOODS; FORESTRY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MEASUREMENT; RESTORATION; RIVERS; SALINITY; SIMULATION; WETLANDS;

DANSHUI RIVER; TAIWAN;

KANDELIA OBOVATA;

EID: 84872200496     PISSN: 09258574     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoleng.2012.12.049     Document Type: Article

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