How to Preserve Coastal Wetlands, Threatened by Climate Change-Driven Rises in Sea Level

Environmental Management

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 671-684

  Ivajnšič, Danijel ^a   Kaligarič, Mitja ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARIBOR   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Coastal management; Coastal wetlands; Conservation countermeasures; Habitat transition model; North Adriatic seacoast; Sea level rise

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; COASTAL ZONES; CONSERVATION; DREDGING; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; SALT DEPOSITS; SEA LEVEL; WETLANDS;

ADRIATIC; COASTAL MANAGEMENT; COASTAL WETLANDS; SEA LEVEL RISE; TRANSITION MODEL;

ECOSYSTEMS;

ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; COASTAL WATERS; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; HABITAT; PREDICTION; SEA LEVEL RISE; SEASHORE; WETLAND; BAY; ECOSYSTEM; SLOVENIA; THEORETICAL MODEL;

SEA WATER;

ALTITUDE; BAYS; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SEAWATER; SLOVENIA; WETLANDS;

EID: 84919395475     PISSN: 0364152X     EISSN: 14321009     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00267-014-0244-8     Document Type: Article

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