U.S. Pacific coastal wetland resilience and vulnerability to sea-level rise

Science Advances

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2018, Pages

  Thorne, Karen ^a   MacDonald, Glen ^b   Guntenspergen, Glenn ^c   Ambrose, Richard ^b   Buffington, Kevin ^a,d   Dugger, Bruce ^d   Freeman, Chase ^a   Janousek, Christopher ^a,d   Brown, Lauren ^b   Rosencranz, Jordan ^b,g   Holmquist, James ^e   Smol, John ^f   Hargan, Kathryn ^f,h   Takekawa, John ^a,i  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c PATUXENT WILDLIFE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^d OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e SMITHSONIAN ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^f QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^g WRA Inc   (United States)

^h KECK GRADUATE INSTITUTE   (United States)

ⁱ Suisun Resource Conservation District   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEMS; SEA LEVEL;

COASTAL DEVELOPMENT; COASTAL WETLANDS; PACIFIC COASTS; SCENARIO APPROACH; SEA LEVEL RISE; STEEP TOPOGRAPHY; VERTICAL ACCRETION; WETLAND HABITATS;

WETLANDS;

SEA WATER;

CALIFORNIA; GEOGRAPHY; PACIFIC OCEAN; THEORETICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES; WATER FLOW; WETLAND;

CALIFORNIA; GEOGRAPHY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PACIFIC OCEAN; SEAWATER; UNITED STATES; WATER MOVEMENTS; WETLANDS;

EID: 85044633759     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23752548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aao3270     Document Type: Article

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