Vegetation-wave interactions in salt marshes under storm surge conditions

Ecological Engineering

Volumn 100, Issue , 2017, Pages 301-315

  Rupprecht, F ^a   Moller I ^b,c   Paul, M ^d   Kudella, M ^d   Spencer, T ^b   van Wesenbeeck, B K ^e,f   Wolters, G ^e   Jensen, K ^a   Bouma, T J ^g   Miranda Lange, M ^d   Schimmels, S ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c FITZWILLIAM COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

^d Forschungszentrum Küste ^*  (Germany)

^e DELTARES   (Netherlands)

^f DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^g ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Biophysical plant properties; Cauchy number; Coastal wetlands; Flow reduction; Plant breakage; Vegetation resilience; Wave dissipation; Wave flume experiment

Indexed keywords

FLOODS; STORMS; VEGETATION; VELOCITY; WATER LEVELS; WAVE ENERGY CONVERSION; WETLANDS;

CAUCHY NUMBERS; COASTAL WETLANDS; FLOW REDUCTION; PLANT PROPERTIES; WAVE DISSIPATION; WAVE FLUMES;

WATER WAVES;

BIOPHYSICS; COASTAL WETLAND; DIMENSIONLESS NUMBER; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; GRASS; SALTMARSH; SEDIMENTATION; SHORELINE CHANGE; STORM SURGE; VEGETATION COVER; WATER LEVEL; WAVE ENERGY; WAVE FORCE; WAVE HEIGHT; WAVE VELOCITY;

ELYMUS; ELYMUS ATHERICUS; HYMENACHNE; PUCCINELLIA; PUCCINELLIA MARITIMA;

EID: 85008975798     PISSN: 09258574     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoleng.2016.12.030     Document Type: Article

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