The secret gardener: Vegetation and the emergence of biogeomorphic patterns in tidal environments

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 371, Issue 2004, 2013, Pages

  Da Lio, Cristina ^a,b   D'Alpaos, Andrea ^a   Marani, Marco ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCES   (Italy)

^c Duke University   (United States)

Author keywords

Ecosystem engineering; Marsh; Tidal environments; Vegetation

Indexed keywords

BIOACTIVITY; FEEDBACK; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; WETLANDS;

BIOGEOMORPHIC FEEDBACKS; BIOMASS PRODUCTIVITY; ECOSYSTEM ENGINEERING; EMERGING PATTERNS; MARSH; MORPHOLOGICAL FEATURES; RELATIVE SEA LEVEL; TIDAL ENVIRONMENTS;

VEGETATION;

BIOMASS; ECOSYSTEM; WETLAND; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLOW KINETICS; METHODOLOGY; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; THEORETICAL MODEL; TSUNAMI;

BIOMASS; ECOSYSTEM; WETLANDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; RHEOLOGY; TIDAL WAVES;

EID: 84888106420     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2012.0367     Document Type: Article

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