US Pacific coastal wetland resilience and vulnerability to sea-level rise

K Thorne, G MacDonald, G Guntenspergen… - Science …, 2018 - science.org
We used a first-of-its-kind comprehensive scenario approach to evaluate both the vertical
and horizontal response of tidal wetlands to projected changes in the rate of sea-level rise …

Potential effects of sea-level rise on coastal wetlands in southeastern Louisiana

P Glick, J Clough, A Polaczyk… - Journal of Coastal …, 2013 - meridian.allenpress.com
ABSTRACT Glick, P.; Clough, J.; Polaczyk, A.; Couvillion, B., and Nunley, B., 2013. Potential
effects of sea-level rise on coastal wetlands in southeastern Louisiana. In: Brock, JC; Barras …

[HTML][HTML] Vulnerability of Louisiana's coastal wetlands to present-day rates of relative sea-level rise

KL Jankowski, TE Törnqvist, AM Fernandes - Nature Communications, 2017 - nature.com
Coastal Louisiana has lost about 5,000 km2 of wetlands over the past century and concern
exists whether remaining wetlands will persist while facing some of the world's highest rates …

[PDF][PDF] Climate change, sea-level rise, and coastal wetlands

DR Cahoon, GR Guntenspergen - National Wetlands Newsletter, 2010 - academia.edu
The capacity of an ecosystem to respond to disturbance and maintain its capacity to function
normally is referred to as ecological resilience. Resilient ecosystems consist of dynamic and …

Localized scenarios and latitudinal patterns of vertical and lateral resilience of tidal marshes to sea‐level rise in the contiguous United States

JR Holmquist, LN Brown, GM MacDonald - Earth's Future, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Coastal wetlands have two dimensions of vulnerability to sea‐level rise (SLR), a vertical
one, in cases where SLR outpaces their capacity to vertically accrete, and a lateral one, in …

High-resolution mapping 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 …

[HTML][HTML] Dynamic responses and implications to coastal wetlands and the surrounding regions under sea level rise

K Alizad, SC Hagen, SC Medeiros, MV Bilskie… - PloS one, 2018 - journals.plos.org
Two distinct microtidal estuarine systems were assessed to advance the understanding of
the coastal dynamics of sea level rise in salt marshes. A coupled hydrodynamic-marsh …

Migration and transformation of coastal wetlands in response to rising seas

MJ Osland, B Chivoiu, NM Enwright, KM Thorne… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Coastal wetlands are not only among the world's most valued ecosystems but also among
the most threatened by high greenhouse gas emissions that lead to accelerated sea level …

Recent acceleration of wetland accretion and carbon accumulation along the US East Coast

NB Weston, E Rodriguez, B Donnelly, E Solohin… - Earth's …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The long‐term stability of coastal wetlands is determined by interactions among sea level,
plant primary production, sediment supply, and wetland vertical accretion. Human activities …

Forecasting the effects of accelerated sea‐level rise on tidal marsh ecosystem services

C Craft, J Clough, J Ehman, S Joye… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
We used field and laboratory measurements, geographic information systems, and
simulation modeling to investigate the potential effects of accelerated sea‐level rise on tidal …