Salt marsh persistence is threatened by predicted sea-level rise

Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science

Volumn 181, Issue , 2016, Pages 93-99

  Crosby, Sarah C ^a,b   Sax, Dov F ^a   Palmer, Megan E ^a   Booth, Harriet S ^a   Deegan, Linda A ^a,b   Bertness, Mark D ^a,b   Leslie, Heather M ^c  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ECOSYSTEMS CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Accretion; Climate change; Elevation; Wetlands

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; COAST; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; ELEVATION; FOOD PROVISIONING; MAGNITUDE; MITIGATION; PERSISTENCE; PUBLIC HEALTH; SALTMARSH; SEA LEVEL; WETLAND;

EID: 84984861165     PISSN: 02727714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecss.2016.08.018     Document Type: Article

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