Surface water and groundwater interactions in salt marshes and their impact on plant ecology and coastal biogeochemistry

P ** of losses and gains of Earth's tidal wetlands
NJ Murray, TA Worthington, P Bunting, S Duce… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Tidal wetlands are expected to respond dynamically to global environmental change, but the
extent to which wetland losses have been offset by gains remains poorly understood. We …

Sustained increase in suspended sediments near global river deltas over the past two decades

X Hou, D **e, L Feng, F Shen, JH Nienhuis - Nature Communications, 2024 - nature.com
River sediments play a critical role in sustaining deltaic wetlands. Therefore, concerns are
raised about wetlands' fate due to the decline of river sediment supply to many deltas …

Global-change controls on soil-carbon accumulation and loss in coastal vegetated ecosystems

AC Spivak, J Sanderman, JL Bowen, EA Canuel… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Coastal seagrass, mangrove and salt-marsh ecosystems—also termed blue-carbon
ecosystems—play an important role in the global carbon cycle. Much of the organic carbon …

The vulnerability of Indo-Pacific mangrove forests to sea-level rise

CE Lovelock, DR Cahoon, DA Friess… - Nature, 2015 - nature.com
Sea-level rise can threaten the long-term sustainability of coastal communities and valuable
ecosystems such as coral reefs, salt marshes and mangroves,. Mangrove forests have the …

[HTML][HTML] Sea level rise impacts on estuarine dynamics: A review

D Khojasteh, W Glamore, V Heimhuber… - Science of The Total …, 2021 - Elsevier
Sea level rise (SLR) poses a hazard to ecosystems and economies in low-lying coastal and
estuarine areas. To better understand the potential impacts of SLR in estuaries, a …

Tidal wetland stability in the face of human impacts and sea-level rise

ML Kirwan, JP Megonigal - Nature, 2013 - nature.com
Coastal populations and wetlands have been intertwined for centuries, whereby humans
both influence and depend on the extensive ecosystem services that wetlands provide …

Ecosystem-based coastal defence in the face of global change

S Temmerman, P Meire, TJ Bouma, PMJ Herman… - Nature, 2013 - nature.com
The risk of flood disasters is increasing for many coastal societies owing to global and
regional changes in climate conditions, sea-level rise, land subsidence and sediment …

The value of coastal wetlands for flood damage reduction in the northeastern USA

S Narayan, MW Beck, P Wilson, CJ Thomas… - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
As exposure to coastal hazards increases there is growing interest in nature-based solutions
for risk reduction. This study uses high-resolution flood and loss models to quantify the …