Salt Marsh and Fringing Oyster Reef Transgression in a Shallow Temperate Estuary: Implications for Restoration, Conservation and Blue Carbon

Estuaries and Coasts

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 1013-1027

  Ridge, Justin T ^a   Rodriguez, Antonio B ^a   Fodrie, F Joel ^a  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

Blue carbon; Erosion; Oysters; Salt marsh; Sea level rise

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTION; CLIMATE CHANGE; COASTAL EROSION; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION; ESTUARINE ENVIRONMENT; FRINGING REEF; GROWTH RATE; INTERTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; SALTMARSH; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SHALLOW WATER; SHORELINE CHANGE; TEMPERATE ENVIRONMENT; TRANSGRESSION;

BACK SOUND; NORTH CAROLINA; UNITED STATES;

OSTREIDAE;

EID: 84997782949     PISSN: 15592723     EISSN: 15592731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12237-016-0196-8     Document Type: Article

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