Responses of eastern Chinese coastal salt marshes to sea-level rise combined with vegetative and sedimentary processes

Scientific Reports

Volumn 6, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Ge, Zhen Ming ^a,b   Wang, Heng ^a   Cao, Hao Bin ^a   Zhao, Bin ^c   Zhou, Xiao ^b   Peltola, Heli ^b   Cui, Li Fang ^a   Li, Xiu Zhen ^a   Zhang, Li Quan ^a  

^a EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

^c FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHINA; DEGRADATION; ESTUARY; HABITAT; MODEL; PLANT COMMUNITY; PREDICTION; RAMET; SALT MARSH; SEA LEVEL RISE; SEDIMENT; SPECIES; VEGETATION;

EID: 84975704697     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep28466     Document Type: Article

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