Meso-scale barrier estuary disturbance, response and recovery behaviour: Evidence of system equilibrium and resilience from high-resolution particle size analysis

Holocene

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 357-369

  Clarke, David W ^a   Boyle, John F ^a   Lario, Javier ^b   Plater, Andrew J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE EDUCACIÓN A DISTANCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

barrier estuary; coastal resilience; end member attractor states; meso scale behaviour; particle size analysis; static equilibrium

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894091034     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: 14770911     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0959683613518597     Document Type: Article

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