Geomorphic and ecological constraints on the coastal carbon sink

ML Kirwan, JP Megonigal, GL Noyce… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2023 - nature.com
Climate change is driving a fundamental reorganization of the coastal zone, in which carbon-
rich ecosystems are simultaneously migrating, accreting and submerging. In this Review, we …

[HTML][HTML] Defining coastal resilience

G Masselink, ED Lazarus - Water, 2019 - mdpi.com
The concept of resilience has taken root in the discourse of environmental management,
especially regarding Building with Nature strategies for embedding natural physical and …

A model integrating satellite‐derived shoreline observations for predicting fine‐scale shoreline response to waves and sea‐level rise across large coastal regions

S Vitousek, K Vos, KD Splinter… - Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Satellite‐derived shoreline observations combined with dynamic shoreline models enable
fine‐scale predictions of coastal change across large spatiotemporal scales. Here, we …

Lag in response of coastal barrier-island retreat to sea-level rise

G Mariotti, CJ Hein - Nature Geoscience, 2022 - nature.com
The response of coastal barrier islands to relative sea-level rise (SLR) is a long-debated
issue. Over centennial and longer periods, regional barrier retreat is generally proportional …

A century of US beach nourishment

N Elko, TR Briggs, L Benedet, Q Robertson… - Ocean & Coastal …, 2021 - Elsevier
This study analyzed decadal and regional trends in one type of shore protection method:
beach nourishment, since its beginning in the US nearly 100 years ago. While strategies …

[HTML][HTML] World's largest dam removal reverses coastal erosion

JA Warrick, AW Stevens, IM Miller, SR Harrison… - Scientific Reports, 2019 - nature.com
Coastal erosion outpaces land generation along many of the world's deltas and a significant
percentage of shorelines, and human-caused alterations to coastal sediment budgets can …

[HTML][HTML] The sustainability of beach nourishments: a review of nourishment and environmental monitoring practice

F Staudt, R Gijsman, C Ganal, F Mielck… - Journal of coastal …, 2021 - Springer
Beach nourishments are a widely used method to mitigate erosion along sandy shorelines.
In contrast to hard coastal protection structures, nourishments are considered as soft …

Variables shaping coastal adaptation decisions to armor, nourish, and retreat in North Carolina

AR Siders, JM Keenan - Ocean & Coastal Management, 2020 - Elsevier
Understanding why and where decision-makers choose to use different climate change
adaptation strategies remains an important theoretical and practical question for coastal …

[HTML][HTML] Species-specific functional morphology of four US Atlantic coast dune grasses: Biogeographic implications for dune shape and coastal protection

SD Hacker, KR Jay, N Cohn, EB Goldstein… - Diversity, 2019 - mdpi.com
Coastal dunes arise from feedbacks between vegetation and sediment supply. Species-
specific differences in plant functional morphology affect sand capture and dune shape. In …

[HTML][HTML] Marine transgression in modern times

CJ Hein, ML Kirwan - Annual Review of Marine Science, 2024 - annualreviews.org
Marine transgression associated with rising sea levels causes coastal erosion, landscape
transitions, and displacement of human populations globally. This process takes two general …