Defining the next generation modeling of coastal ecotone dynamics in response to global change

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 326, Issue , 2016, Pages 168-176

  Jiang, Jiang ^a   DeAngelis, Donald L ^b   Teh, Su Yean ^c   Krauss, Ken W ^d   Wang, Hongqing ^d   Li, Haidong ^e   Smith, Thomas J ^b   Koh, Hock Lye ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c SCHOOL OF PHYSICS   (Malaysia)

^d NATIONAL WETLANDS RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^e NANJING INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (China)

^f UCSI UNIVERSITY   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Coastal habitat; Ecotone migration; Feedback; Sea level rise; Vegetation change

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEMS; FEEDBACK; PLANTS (BOTANY); SEA LEVEL; VEGETATION; WETLANDS;

CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION; COASTAL HABITATS; ECOTONE MIGRATION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; SEA LEVEL RISE; THEORETICAL MODELING; VEGETATION CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ADAPTATION; COASTAL WETLAND; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ECOTONE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEEDBACK MECHANISM; GLOBAL CHANGE; HALOPHYTE; MICROHABITAT; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

EID: 84961186984     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2015.04.013     Document Type: Article

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