Recent advances and new frontiers in riverine and coastal flood modeling

K Jafarzadegan, H Moradkhani… - Reviews of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Over the past decades, the scientific community has made significant efforts to simulate
flooding conditions using a variety of complex physically based models. Despite all …

Sea-level driven land conversion and the formation of ghost forests

ML Kirwan, KB Gedan - Nature Climate Change, 2019 - nature.com
Ghost forests created by the submergence of low-lying land are one of the most striking
indicators of climate change along the Atlantic coast of North America. Although dead trees …

Salt marsh hydrogeology: A review

J Guimond, J Tamborski - Water, 2021 - mdpi.com
Groundwater–surface water exchange in salt marsh ecosystems mediates nearshore salt,
nutrient, and carbon budgets with implications for biological productivity and global climate …

Variability in marsh migration potential determined by topographic rather than anthropogenic constraints in the Chesapeake Bay region

GD Molino, JA Carr, NK Ganju… - Limnology and …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Sea level rise (SLR) and saltwater intrusion are driving inland shifts in coastal ecosystems.
Here, we make high‐resolution (1 m) predictions of land conversion under future SLR …

Embracing dynamic design for climate-resilient living shorelines

M Mitchell, DM Bilkovic - Journal of Applied Ecology, 2019 - JSTOR
As natural marshes are lost to erosion, sea level rise, and human activity, small created
marshes,(sometimes with ancillary stabilization structures, and frequently called living …

Living shorelines achieve functional equivalence to natural fringe marshes across multiple ecological metrics

RE Isdell, DM Bilkovic, AG Guthrie, MM Mitchell… - PeerJ, 2021 - peerj.com
Nature-based shoreline protection provides a welcome class of adaptations to promote
ecological resilience in the face of climate change. Along coastlines, living shorelines are …

Salt marsh vegetation change during a half-century of experimental nutrient addition and climate-driven controls in Great Sippewissett Marsh

I Valiela, K Chenoweth, J Lloret, J Teal, B Howes… - Science of the Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Vegetative cover was mapped annually, 1976–2022, in experimental plots in Great
Sippewissett Marsh, Cape Cod, USA, chronically fertilized at different doses, and subject to …

Influence of rivers, tides, and tidal wetlands on estuarine carbonate system dynamics

F Da, MAM Friedrichs, P St-Laurent, RG Najjar… - Estuaries and …, 2024 - Springer
Variations in estuarine carbonate chemistry can have critical impacts on marine calcifying
organisms, yet the drivers of this variability are difficult to quantify from observations alone …

Evolution of tidal marsh distribution under accelerating sea level rise

M Mitchell, J Herman, C Hershner - Wetlands, 2020 - Springer
Tidal marshes are important ecological systems that are responding to sea level rise-driven
changes in tidal regimes. Human development along the coastline creates barriers to marsh …

Environmental Limits on the Spread of Invasive Phragmites australis into Upland Forests with Marine Transgression

P Shaw, J Jobe, KB Gedan - Estuaries and Coasts, 2022 - Springer
Phragmites australis is a cosmopolitan grass that has transformed tidal wetlands in regions
where it is invasive. The position of P. australis at the upland margin of tidal wetlands makes …