Variable impacts of climate change on blue carbon

CE Lovelock, R Reef - One Earth, 2020 - cell.com
Blue carbon provides opportunities to mitigate climate change while increasing ecosystem
services for coastal communities, including climate change adaptation; however, blue …

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 …

Nature-based engineering: a review on reducing coastal flood risk with mangroves

R Gijsman, EM Horstman, D van der Wal… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Integration of mangroves in projects to reduce coastal flood risk is increasingly being
recognised as a sustainable and cost-effective alternative. In addition to the construction of …

[HTML][HTML] Mangrove forests as a nature-based solution for coastal flood protection: Biophysical and ecological considerations

R Van Hespen, Z Hu, B Borsje, M De Dominicis… - Water Science and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Nature-based coastal protection is increasingly recognised as a potentially sustainable and
cost-effective solution to reduce coastal flood risk. It uses coastal ecosystems such as …

Identifying knowledge gaps hampering application of intertidal habitats in coastal protection: Opportunities & steps to take

TJ Bouma, J Van Belzen, T Balke, Z Zhu, L Airoldi… - Coastal …, 2014 - Elsevier
Over the last decades, population densities in coastal areas have strongly increased. At the
same time, many intertidal coastal ecosystems that provide valuable services in terms of …

Critical transitions in disturbance‐driven ecosystems: identifying W indows of O pportunity for recovery

T Balke, PMJ Herman, TJ Bouma - Journal of Ecology, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Vegetation recovery in disturbance‐driven ecosystems is difficult to predict. We demonstrate
a concept to analyse time series for short‐term variability in external forcing that can identify …

Short‐term mudflat dynamics drive long‐term cyclic salt marsh dynamics

TJ Bouma, J Van Belzen, T Balke… - Limnology and …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Our study aims to enhance process understanding of the long‐term (decadal and longer)
cyclic marsh dynamics by identifying the mechanisms that translate large‐scale physical …

A general framework for propagule dispersal in mangroves

T Van der Stocken, AKS Wee, DJR De Ryck… - Biological …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Dispersal allows species to shift their distributions in response to changing climate
conditions. As a result, dispersal is considered a key process contributing to a species' long …

[HTML][HTML] Do salt marshes survive sea level rise? Modelling wave action, morphodynamics and vegetation dynamics

ÜSN Best, M Van der Wegen, J Dijkstra… - … modelling & software, 2018 - Elsevier
This paper aims to fundamentally assess the resilience of salt marsh-mudflat systems under
sea level rise. We applied an open-source schematized 2D area model (Delft3D) that …