Climate change and artificial barrier effects on the Venice Lagoon: Inundation dynamics of salt marshes and implications for halophytes distribution

Ocean and Coastal Management

Volumn 100, Issue , 2014, Pages 101-115

  Bellafiore, Debora ^a   Ghezzo, Michol ^a   Tagliapietra, Davide ^a   Umgiesser, Georg ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCES   (Italy)

^b KLAIPEDA UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELS; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FLOODS; HISTORIC PRESERVATION; LAKES; SEA LEVEL; WETLANDS;

DEMOGRAPHIC GROWTH; EFFICIENT TECHNOLOGY; INTEGRATED MANAGEMENT; INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL FOR CLIMATE CHANGES; MODEL IMPLEMENTATION; PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS; PHYSICAL CONDITIONS; REGIONAL DOWNSCALING;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; CLIMATE CHANGE; COASTAL PROTECTION; COASTAL ZONE MANAGEMENT; FLOODING; HALOPHYTE; HUMAN ACTIVITY; HYDRODYNAMICS; INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; MORPHODYNAMICS; SALINITY; SALTMARSH; TYPOLOGY;

ITALY; VENETO; VENEZIA [VENETO]; VENICE LAGOON;

EID: 84906510067     PISSN: 09645691     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2014.08.002     Document Type: Article

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