Mangrove Sedimentation and Response to Relative Sea-Level Rise

Annual Review of Marine Science

Volumn 8, Issue , 2016, Pages 243-266

  Woodroffe, C D ^a   Rogers, K ^a   McKee, K L ^b   Lovelock, C E ^c   Mendelssohn, I A ^d   Saintilan, N ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^b NATIONAL WETLANDS RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^d LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Carbon sequestration; Hydrodynamics; Mangrove ecosystems; Sea level rise; Sediment accumulation

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEMS; FLUID DYNAMICS; FORESTRY; HYDRODYNAMICS; SEDIMENTS; TROPICS;

CARBON SEQUESTRATION; INTERTIDAL SHORELINES; MANGROVE ECOSYSTEMS; RADIOMETRIC DATING; RELATIVE SEA LEVEL RISE; SEA LEVEL RISE; SEDIMENT ACCUMULATION; TERRIGENOUS SEDIMENT;

SEA LEVEL;

ACCUMULATION; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; AUTOCHTHON; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CARBONATE; DATING METHOD; HYDRODYNAMICS; MANGROVE; RADIOMETRIC METHOD; SALINITY; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEDIMENTATION;

RHIZOPHORACEAE;

SEA WATER;

CHEMISTRY; ECOSYSTEM; SEA; SEDIMENT;

ECOSYSTEM; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; OCEANS AND SEAS; SEAWATER;

EID: 84954202700     PISSN: 19411405     EISSN: 19410611     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-marine-122414-034025     Document Type: Article

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