Evidence for elevated coastal vulnerability following large-scale historical oyster bed harvesting

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 41, Issue 8, 2016, Pages 1136-1143

  Brandon, Christine M ^a   Woodruff, Jonathan D ^a   Orton, Philip M ^b   Donnelly, Jeffrey P ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

environmental change; hurricanes; oyster bed; sediment deposition; wave modeling

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITION; FLOODS; FORESTRY; HURRICANES; MOLLUSCS; REPAIR; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SHORE PROTECTION; STORMS; WAVE ENERGY CONVERSION;

COASTAL BARRIER; COASTAL PROTECTION; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; FLOOD MITIGATION; OYSTER BED; SEDIMENT DEPOSITION; TIDAL MARSHES; WAVE MODELING;

SHELLFISH;

BIVALVE; COASTAL PROTECTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEPOSITION; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; FLOOD CONTROL; HURRICANE EVENT; NUMERICAL MODEL; WAVE MODELING;

NEW YORK HARBOR; UNITED STATES;

ANTHOZOA; OSTREIDAE; RHIZOPHORACEAE;

EID: 84979487495     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: 10969837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/esp.3931     Document Type: Article

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