Establishing relative sea level trends where a coast lacks a long term tide gauge

Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change

Volumn 20, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 1211-1227

  Ellison, Joanna ^a   Strickland, Pippa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Climate change; Mangrove communities; Pacific Islands; Sea level rise; Vulnerability assessment

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; COASTAL ZONE; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; LONG-TERM CHANGE; MANGROVE; PALYNOLOGY; PLANT COMMUNITY; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEDIMENT CORE; SEDIMENTATION RATE; SHORELINE; SPECIES OCCURRENCE; TIDAL RANGE; TIDE GAUGE; VULNERABILITY;

FIJI; PACIFIC ISLANDS;

BRUGUIERA GYMNORHIZA; RHIZOPHORA SAMOENSIS; RHIZOPHORA STYLOSA;

EID: 84942055304     PISSN: 13812386     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11027-013-9534-3     Document Type: Article

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