Coastal managers worldwide increasingly recognize the importance of conservation and
restoration of natural coastal ecosystems. This ensures coastal resilience and provision of …

Salt marshes occur globally across climatic and coastal settings, providing key linkages
between terrestrial and marine ecosystems. However, salt marsh science lacks a unifying …

Grasslands, in particular managed pastures and rangelands, are widespread, covering
approximately 40%(52 million km²) of the Earth's land surface. They are dominated by …

Estuarine Ecohydrology, Second Edition, provides an ecohydrology viewpoint of an estuary
as an ecosystem by focusing on its principal components, the river, the estuarine waters, the …

Biologically mediated modifications of the abiotic environment, also called ecosystem
engineering, can significantly affect a broad range of ecosystems. Nevertheless, remarkably …

Vegetation is traditionally regarded to reduce the erosion of channels in both fluvial and tidal
landscapes. We present a coupled hydrodynamic, morphodynamic, and plant growth model …

The objectives of the present study were twofold:(1) to identify spatial sedimentation and
erosion patterns developing within patches of epibenthic structures (ie physical structures …

互花米草(Spartina alterniflora Loisel) 因其促淤造陆和消浪护堤作用显著而被许多国家引种,
如今却在侵入地快速蔓延并呈现爆发趋势, 对生态系统造成了极大危害, 被认为是研究生物入侵 …

Complexity theory predicts that local feedback processes may strongly affect the
organization of ecosystems on larger spatial scales. Whether complexity leads to increased …

Many ecosystems are greatly affected by ecosystem engineering, such as coastal salt
marshes, where macrophytes trap sediment by reducing hydrodynamic energy …