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 …

The tides they are a‐Changin': A comprehensive review of past and future nonastronomical changes in tides, their driving mechanisms, and future implications

ID Haigh, MD Pickering, JAM Green… - Reviews of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Scientists and engineers have observed for some time that tidal amplitudes at many
locations are shifting considerably due to nonastronomical factors. Here we review …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Engineer pioneer plants respond to and affect geomorphic constraints similarly along water–terrestrial interfaces world‐wide

D Corenblit, A Baas, T Balke, T Bouma… - Global Ecology and …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Within fluvial and coastal ecosystems world‐wide, flows of water, wind and sediment
generate a shifting landscape mosaic composed of bare substrate and pioneer and mature …

[HTML][HTML] Map** mangrove dynamics and colonization patterns at the Suriname coast using historic satellite data and the LandTrendr algorithm

SM de Jong, Y Shen, J de Vries, G Bijnaar… - International Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Mangroves play an important role in protecting coasts against wave energy and storms.
Mangrove ecosystems provide important habitats for fauna and flora and are an important …