Unravelling the controls of lateral expansion and elevation change of pioneer tidal marshes

Geomorphology

Volumn 274, Issue , 2016, Pages 106-115

  Silinski, Alexandra ^a   Fransen, Erik ^a   Bouma, Tjeerd J ^b   Meire, Patrick ^a   Temmerman, Stijn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Clonal integration; Clonal marsh expansion; Elevation change; Wave exposure

Indexed keywords

ELEVATION; GEOMORPHOLOGICAL RESPONSE; MARSH; SPATIAL VARIATION; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TIDAL FLAT;

BELGIUM; NETHERLANDS; WESTERSCHELDE;

SCHOENOPLECTUS MARITIMUS;

EID: 84988023698     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2016.09.006     Document Type: Article

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