Biophysical properties of salt marsh canopies - Quantifying plant stem flexibility and above ground biomass

Coastal Engineering

Volumn 100, Issue , 2015, Pages 48-57

  Rupprecht, F ^a,c   Moller I ^b,c   Evans, B ^c   Spencer, T ^c   Jensen, K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b FITZWILLIAM COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Drag; Flexural rigidity; Vegetation structure; Wave attenuation; Young's bending modulus

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; BIOPHYSICS; DRAG; ENERGY DISSIPATION; FLOW OF WATER; FORESTRY; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; PHOTOGRAPHY; STRUCTURAL PROPERTIES; TIDAL POWER; VEGETATION; WAVE ENERGY CONVERSION;

BENDING MODULI; FLEXURAL RIGIDITIES; NONDESTRUCTIVE ASSESSMENT; SURFACE CHARACTERISTICS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL STRUCTURE; VEGETATION STRUCTURE; WAVE ATTENUATION; WAVE ENERGY DISSIPATION;

WETLANDS;

ABOVEGROUND BIOMASS; BIOPHYSICS; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; GRASS; HABITAT STRUCTURE; SALTMARSH; STEM; VEGETATION STRUCTURE; WAVE ATTENUATION; YOUNG MODULUS;

DENGIE PENINSULA; ENGLAND; ESSEX [ENGLAND]; UNITED KINGDOM;

ATRIPLEX PORTULACOIDES; ELYMUS ATHERICUS; POACEAE; PUCCINELLIA MARITIMA; SPARTINA ANGLICA;

EID: 84927915464     PISSN: 03783839     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.coastaleng.2015.03.009     Document Type: Article

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