Surface water and groundwater interactions in salt marshes and their impact on plant ecology and coastal biogeochemistry

P Xin, A Wilson, C Shen, Z Ge, KB Moffett… - Reviews of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Salt marshes are highly productive intertidal wetlands providing important ecological
services for maintaining coastal biodiversity, buffering against oceanic storms, and acting as …

A review on bank retreat: Mechanisms, observations, and modeling

K Zhao, G Coco, Z Gong, SE Darby… - Reviews of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Bank retreat plays a fundamental role in fluvial and estuarine dynamics. It affects the cross‐
sectional evolution of channels, provides a source of sediment, and modulates the diversity …

Marsh processes and their response to climate change and sea-level rise

DM FitzGerald, Z Hughes - Annual Review of Earth and …, 2019 - annualreviews.org
In addition to their being vital components of mid-to high-latitude coastal ecosystems, salt
marshes contain 0.1% of global sequestered terrestrial carbon. Their sustainability is now …

Modeling the morphodynamics of coastal responses to extreme events: What shape are we in?

CR Sherwood, A Van Dongeren, J Doyle… - Annual review of …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
This review focuses on recent advances in process-based numerical models of the impact of
extreme storms on sandy coasts. Driven by larger-scale models of meteorology and …

[HTML][HTML] Salt marshes create more extensive channel networks than mangroves

C Schwarz, F van Rees, D Xie, MG Kleinhans… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Coastal wetlands fulfil important functions for biodiversity conservation and coastal
protection, which are inextricably linked to typical morphological features like tidal channels …

[HTML][HTML] Mangrove removal exacerbates estuarine infilling through landscape-scale bio-morphodynamic feedbacks

D Xie, C Schwarz, MG Kleinhans, KR Bryan… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract Changes in upstream land-use have significantly transformed downstream coastal
ecosystems around the globe. Restoration of coastal ecosystems often focuses on local …

Is “morphodynamic equilibrium” an oxymoron?

Z Zhou, G Coco, I Townend, M Olabarrieta… - Earth-Science …, 2017 - Elsevier
Morphodynamic equilibrium is a widely adopted yet elusive concept in the field of
geomorphology of coasts, rivers and estuaries. Based on the Exner equation, an expression …

Mangrove‐forest evolution in a sediment‐rich estuarine system: opportunists or agents of geomorphic change?

A Swales, SJ Bentley Sr… - Earth Surface Processes …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
The majority of the world's mangrove forests occur on mostly mineral sediments of fluvial
origin. Two perspectives exist on the biogeomorphic development of these forests, ie that …

Coastal lagoons and rising sea level: A review

AR Carrasco, Ó Ferreira, D Roelvink - Earth-Science Reviews, 2016 - Elsevier
Sea-level rise (SLR) poses a particularly ominous threat to human habitations and
infrastructure in the coastal zone because 10% of the world's population lives in low-lying …

Implications of coastal conditions and sea‐level rise on mangrove vulnerability: a bio‐morphodynamic modeling study

D Xie, C Schwarz, MG Kleinhans… - Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Mangrove forests are valuable coastal ecosystems that have been shown to persist on
muddy intertidal flats through bio‐morphodynamic feedbacks. However, the role of coastal …