Vegetation controls on the maximum size of coastal dunes

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 43, 2013, Pages 17217-17222

  Durán, Orencio ^a,b   Moore, Laura J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dune stabilization; Ecomorphodynamic modeling; Sediment budget

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COASTAL WATERS; COEVOLUTION; HABITAT; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; PHYSICAL PHENOMENA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASHORE; STEADY STATE; VEGETATION; WIND;

DUNE STABILIZATION; ECOMORPHODYNAMIC MODELING; SEDIMENT BUDGET;

ALGORITHMS; AUSTRALIA; BRAZIL; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; GEOGRAPHY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OCEANS AND SEAS; PLANTS; SILICON DIOXIDE; TIME FACTORS; WIND;

EID: 84886399436     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1307580110     Document Type: Article

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