Dual role of salt marsh retreat: Long-term loss and short-term resilience

Water Resources Research

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 2963-2974

  Mariotti, G ^a   Carr, J ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

marsh loss; resilience; strategies; waves

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENTS; EROSION; SEA LEVEL; SEDIMENTS; TIDES; WAVES;

ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETER; EROSION PROCESS; MODULAR STRATEGY; RESILIENCE; SEDIMENT ACCUMULATION; SEDIMENT SUPPLY; STRATEGIES; SYSTEM RESILIENCES;

WETLANDS;

ALLOCHTHONY; ECOSYSTEM HEALTH; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; ERODIBILITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; SALTMARSH; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; WAVE ACTION; WIND PROFILE;

EID: 84897351406     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013WR014676     Document Type: Article

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