Barriers to and opportunities for landward migration of coastal wetlands with sea-level rise

Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 307-316

  Enwright, Nicholas M ^a   Griffith, Kereen T ^a   Osland, Michael J ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; COASTAL DEVELOPMENT; COASTAL WETLAND; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; HABITAT CORRIDOR; HUMAN ACTIVITY; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; URBANIZATION; VERTICAL MIGRATION; VERTICAL MOVEMENT;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; GULF OF MEXICO;

EID: 84979966615     PISSN: 15409295     EISSN: 15409309     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/fee.1282     Document Type: Article

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