Windows of opportunity for salt marsh vegetation establishment on bare tidal flats: The importance of temporal and spatial variability in hydrodynamic forcing

Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences

Volumn 120, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 1450-1469

  Hu, Zhan ^a,b   Van Belzen, Jim ^a   Van Der Wal, Daphne ^a   Balke, Thorsten ^a,c   Wang, Zheng Bing ^b,d   Stive, Marcel ^b   Bouma, Tjeerd J ^a  

^a ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

^d DELTARES   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

disturbance time series; episodic recruitment; growth conditions; marsh restoration; marsh width; tidal flat bathymetry

Indexed keywords

BATHYMETRY; CLIMATE CHANGE; COASTAL ZONE MANAGEMENT; EPISODIC EVENT; GEOMORPHOLOGY; HYDRODYNAMIC FORCE; PHYSICAL DISTURBANCE; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SALTMARSH; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TIDAL FLAT; TIME SERIES; VEGETATION COVER;

NETHERLANDS;

EID: 84939217686     PISSN: 21698953     EISSN: 21698961     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014JG002870     Document Type: Article

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