Managed Retreat of Saline Coastal Wetlands: Challenges and Opportunities Identified from the Hunter River Estuary, Australia

Estuaries and Coasts

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 67-78

  Rogers, Kerrylee ^a   Saintilan, Neil ^b   Copeland, Craig ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^b OFFICE OF ENVIRONMENT AND HERITAGE   (Australia)

^c Wollongbar Agricultural Institute   (Australia)

Author keywords

Carbon sequestration; Elevation model; Saline coastal wetland; Sea level rise; Sediment accretion; Threshold

Indexed keywords

ACCRETION; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; COASTAL WETLAND; ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT; ESTUARINE ECOSYSTEM; MANGROVE; NUMERICAL MODEL; RAMSAR CONVENTION; SALTMARSH; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; THRESHOLD; WETLAND MANAGEMENT;

AUSTRALIA; HUNTER ESTUARY; NEW SOUTH WALES;

EID: 84893693872     PISSN: 15592723     EISSN: 15592731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12237-013-9664-6     Document Type: Article

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