Marshes and mangroves as nature-based coastal storm buffers

S Temmerman, EM Horstman… - Annual Review of …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Tidal marshes and mangroves are increasingly valued for nature-based mitigation of coastal
storm impacts, such as flooding and shoreline erosion hazards, which are growing due to …

How plants influence resilience of salt marsh and mangrove wetlands to sea-level rise

DR Cahoon, KL McKee, JT Morris - Estuaries and Coasts, 2021 - Springer
This review evaluates the importance of plants and associated biological processes in
determining the vulnerability of coastal wetlands to sea-level rise. Coastal wetlands occur …

Capitalizing on the global financial interest in blue carbon

DA Friess, J Howard, M Huxham, PI Macreadie… - PLoS …, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Natural climate solutions are crucial interventions to help countries and companies achieve
their net-zero carbon emissions ambitions. Blue carbon ecosystems such as mangroves …

Coming to terms with living shorelines: a scoping review of novel restoration strategies for shoreline protection

CS Smith, ME Rudd, RK Gittman, EC Melvin… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
In an era of rapid coastal population expansion and habitat degradation, restoration is
becoming an increasingly important strategy for combating coastal habitat loss and …

Biochar may alter plant communities when remediating the cadmium-contaminated soil in the saline-alkaline wetland

Z Meng, X Mo, W Meng, B Hu, H Li, J Liu, X Lu… - Science of The Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
It is thought remediating cadmium pollution with biochar can affect plant traits. However, the
potential impact of this practice on plant communities is poorly understood. Here, we …

Top-predator recovery abates geomorphic decline of a coastal ecosystem

BB Hughes, KM Beheshti, MT Tinker, C Angelini… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
The recovery of top predators is thought to have cascading effects on vegetated ecosystems
and their geomorphology,, but the evidence for this remains correlational and intensely …

Preparing coastal erosion vulnerability index applying deep learning techniques in Odisha state of India

B Mohanty, R Sarkar, S Saha - International Journal of disaster risk …, 2023 - Elsevier
With the changing climatic and anthropogenic conditions, the natural ecosystem especially
the coastal zones is at great risk. The ocean is engulfing the land through the process of …

Coastal wetlands mitigate storm flooding and associated costs in estuaries

TP Fairchild, WG Bennett, G Smith, B Day… - Environmental …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
As storm-driven coastal flooding increases under climate change, wetlands such as
saltmarshes are held as a nature-based solution. Yet evidence supporting wetlands' storm …

Effects of mangrove cover on coastal erosion during a hurricane in Texas, USA

SC Pennings, RM Glazner, ZJ Hughes, JS Kominoski… - 2021 - Wiley Online Library
We tested the hypothesis that mangroves provide better coastal protection than salt marsh
vegetation using 10 1,008‐m2 plots in which we manipulated mangrove cover from 0 to …

A large invasive consumer reduces coastal ecosystem resilience by disabling positive species interactions

MJS Hensel, BR Silliman, J van de Koppel… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Invasive consumers can cause extensive ecological damage to native communities but
effects on ecosystem resilience are less understood. Here, we use drone surveys …