Soil salinization caused by sea level rise threatens coastal agricultural soils and geochemically important wetlands worldwide. The aim of this review is to outline expected …
Ecosystem connectivity tends to increase the resilience and function of ecosystems responding to stressors. Coastal ecosystems sequester disproportionately large amounts of …
Blue carbon ecosystems (BCE) include mangrove forests, tidal marshes, and seagrass meadows, all of which are currently under threat, putting their contribution to mitigating …
YYY Yau, P Xin, X Chen, L Zhan, M Call… - Limnology and …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Saltmarshes are a blue carbon ecosystem accumulating large quantities of organic carbon in sediments. Some of this carbon can be transformed into dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC) …
Coastal defense structures (eg, dikes, seawalls) protect vulnerable communities along marine coastlines and estuaries from the physical and chemical influences of adjacent water …
Y Zheng, M Yang, H Liu - Earth-Science Reviews, 2024 - Elsevier
Groundwater dynamics in the coastal unconfined aquifer is one of the most important physical factors in the coastal zone since it greatly influences the nearshore hydrodynamics …
L Zhan, P Xin, J Chen, X Chen… - … and Oceanography Letters, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Salt marshes can export considerable nutrients and carbon to the ocean through submarine groundwater discharge (SGD). However, the complicated SGD processes in salt marshes …
JL Krask, TL Buck, RP Dunn, EM Smith - Plos one, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Salt marshes are ecologically and economically important features of coastal environments that are vulnerable to sea level rise, the rate of which has accelerated in recent decades …
This study analyzes the spatiotemporal dynamics of the vegetation of a highly urbanized coastal wetland in the 2000–2020 period, considering natural disturbances and …