Coastal Wetlands in the Anthropocene

J Day, E Anthony, R Costanza… - Annual Review of …, 2024 - annualreviews.org
We review the functioning and sustainability of coastal marshes and mangroves. Urbanized
humans have a 7,000-year-old enduring relationship to coastal wetlands. Wetlands include …

Comparing the Yangtze and Mississippi River Deltas in the light of coupled natural-human dynamics: Lessons learned and implications for management

W Zhang, YJ Xu, L Guo, NSN Lam, K Xu, S Yang… - Geomorphology, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract The Yangtze River Delta (YRD) and Mississippi River Delta (MRD) are two of the
largest deltas in the world. Despite similar forcing conditions of fluvial sediment reduction …

Coastal flooding will disproportionately impact people on river deltas

DA Edmonds, RL Caldwell, ES Brondizio… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Climate change is intensifying tropical cyclones, accelerating sea-level rise, and increasing
coastal flooding. River deltas are especially vulnerable to flooding because of their low …

Land loss due to human-altered sediment budget in the Mississippi River Delta

DA Edmonds, SC Toby, CG Siverd, R Twilley… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Land loss in the Mississippi River Delta is due to the human-altered sediment budget, yet
the relative contributions of building dams, levees and extracting subsurface resources are …

Mangrove forests in a rapidly changing world: Global change impacts and conservation opportunities along the Gulf of Mexico coast

MJ Osland, LC Feher, J López-Portillo, RH Day… - Estuarine, Coastal and …, 2018 - Elsevier
Mangrove forests are highly-productive intertidal wetlands that support many ecosystem
goods and services. In addition to providing fish and wildlife habitat, mangrove forests …

[HTML][HTML] Land loss in the Mississippi River Delta: Role of subsidence, global sea-level rise, and coupled atmospheric and oceanographic processes

M Blum, D Rahn, B Frederick, S Polanco - Global and Planetary Change, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract The Mississippi River Delta in coastal Louisiana has suffered large-scale land loss
during the historic period and is representative of a global phenomenon where low …

Prediction modelling of riverine landscape dynamics in the context of sustainable management of floodplain: a Geospatial approach

N Alam, S Saha, S Gupta, S Chakraborty - Annals of GIS, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Presently, sustainability of floodplain, a diverse element of the riverine landscape, provides
an ideal research setting for investigating complex interaction between anthropogenic …

Mississippi river sediment diversions and coastal wetland sustainability: Synthesis of responses to freshwater, sediment, and nutrient inputs

T Elsey-Quirk, SA Graham, IA Mendelssohn… - Estuarine, Coastal and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Management and restoration of coastal wetlands require insight into how inundation,
salinity, and the availability of mineral sediment and nutrients interact to influence ecosystem …

Guidance for assessing interregional ecosystem service flows

T Koellner, A Bonn, S Arnhold, KJ Bagstad… - Ecological …, 2019 - Elsevier
Ecosystem services (ES) assessments commonly focus on a specific biophysical region or
nation and take its geographic borders as the system boundary. Most geographical regions …

Drivers and impacts of water level fluctuations in the Mississippi River delta: Implications for delta restoration

M Hiatt, G Snedden, JW Day, RV Rohli… - Estuarine, Coastal and …, 2019 - Elsevier
This review synthesizes the knowledge regarding the environmental forces affecting water
level variability in the coastal waters of the Mississippi River delta and relates these …