Multiple Stable States and Catastrophic Shifts in Coastal Wetlands: Progress, Challenges, and Opportunities in Validating Theory Using Remote Sensing and Other Methods

Biogeomorphic feedback between plant growth and flooding causes alternative stable states in an experimental floodplain

(2016) Chen Wang et al.   ADVANCES IN WATER RESOURCES

Spatial and temporal variability of seagrass at Lizard Island, Great Barrier Reef

(2015) Megan I. Saunders et al.   BOTANICA MARINA

Observation of typhoon-induced seagrass die-off using remote sensing

(2015) Keunyong Kim et al.   ESTUARINE COASTAL AND SHELF SCIENCE

Accretion and Vegetation Community Change in the Wax Lake Delta Following the Historic 2011 Mississippi River Flood

(2015) Melissa Vernon Carle et al.   JOURNAL OF COASTAL RESEARCH

Groundwater dynamics and surface water–groundwater interactions in a prograding delta island, Louisiana, USA

(2015) Michael T. O’Connor et al.   JOURNAL OF HYDROLOGY

Quantifying the Contribution of Sediment Compaction to late Holocene Salt-Marsh Sea-Level Reconstructions, North Carolina, USA

(2015) Matthew J. Brain et al.   QUATERNARY RESEARCH

Identifying environmental controls on the shoreline of a natural river delta

(2015) N. Geleynse et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-EARTH SURFACE

Holocene salt-marsh sedimentary infilling and relative sea-level changes in West Brittany (France) using foraminifera-based transfer functions

(2014) Pierre Stéphan et al.   BOREAS

Comparing the influence of large- and small-scale disturbances on forest heterogeneity: A simulation study for mangroves

(2014) Juliane Vogt et al.   Ecological Complexity

Mapping freshwater marsh species distributions using WorldView-2 high-resolution multispectral satellite imagery

(2014) Melissa Vernon Carle et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF REMOTE SENSING

Critical transitions in disturbance-driven ecosystems: identifying Windows of Opportunity for recovery

(2014) Thorsten Balke et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Late Holocene sea- and land-level change on the U.S. southeastern Atlantic coast

(2014) Andrew C. Kemp et al.   MARINE GEOLOGY

Optimum vegetation height and density for inorganic sedimentation in deltaic marshes

(2014) William Nardin et al.   Nature Geoscience

Wave attenuation over coastal salt marshes under storm surge conditions

(2014) Iris Möller et al.   Nature Geoscience

Spatial and Seasonal CH4 Flux in the Littoral Zone of Miyun Reservoir near Beijing: The Effects of Water Level and Its Fluctuation

(2014) Meng Yang et al.   PLoS One

Aboveground Allometric Models for Freeze-Affected Black Mangroves (Avicennia germinans): Equations for a Climate Sensitive Mangrove-Marsh Ecotone

(2014) Michael J. Osland et al.   PLoS One

Does biogeomorphic feedback lead to abrupt shifts between alternative landscape states?: An empirical study on intertidal flats and marshes

(2014) Chen Wang et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-EARTH SURFACE

Sediment dynamics in shallow tidal basins: In situ observations, satellite retrievals, and numerical modeling in the Venice Lagoon

(2014) L. Carniello et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-EARTH SURFACE

Analysis and Simulation of Propagule Dispersal and Salinity Intrusion from Storm Surge on the Movement of a Marsh–Mangrove Ecotone in South Florida

(2013) Jiang Jiang et al.   Estuaries and Coasts

Vegetation and sediment characteristics in an expanding mangrove forest in New Zealand

(2013) Juan Yang et al.   ESTUARINE COASTAL AND SHELF SCIENCE

Towards understanding temporal and spatial dynamics of seagrass landscapes using time-series remote sensing

(2013) Mitchell B. Lyons et al.   ESTUARINE COASTAL AND SHELF SCIENCE

Latent impacts: the role of historical human activity in coastal habitat loss

(2013) Tyler C Coverdale et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Recent decadal growth of the Atchafalaya River Delta complex: Effects of variable riverine sediment input and vegetation succession

(2013) Timothy Rosen et al.   GEOMORPHOLOGY

Remote sensing of emergent and submerged wetlands: an overview

(2013) V. Klemas   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF REMOTE SENSING

Tidal wetland stability in the face of human impacts and sea-level rise

(2013) Matthew L. Kirwan et al.   NATURE

Ecosystem-based coastal defence in the face of global change

(2013) Stijn Temmerman et al.   NATURE

The changing carbon cycle of the coastal ocean

(2013) James E. Bauer et al.   NATURE

How mangrove forests adjust to rising sea level

(2013) Ken W. Krauss et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Nonlinear Dynamics and Alternative Stable States in Shallow Coastal Systems

(2013) Karen McGlathery et al.   OCEANOGRAPHY

Marsh Collapse Does Not Require Sea Level Rise

(2013) Sergio Fagherazzi et al.   OCEANOGRAPHY

Neural Network Classification of Mangrove Species from Multi-seasonal Ikonos Imagery

(2013) Le Wang et al.   PHOTOGRAMMETRIC ENGINEERING AND REMOTE SENSING

Decadal changes in vegetation of a subarctic salt marsh used by lesser snow and Canada geese

(2013) P. M. Kotanen et al.   PLANT ECOLOGY

Vegetation engineers marsh morphology through multiple competing stable states

(2013) Marco Marani et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Evidence of alternate attractors from a whole-ecosystem regime shift experiment

(2013) David A. Seekell et al.   Theoretical Ecology

The role of coastal plant communities for climate change mitigation and adaptation

(2013) Carlos M. Duarte et al.   Nature Climate Change

Measuring sedimentation in tidal marshes: a review on methods and their applicability in biogeomorphological studies

(2013) S. Nolte et al.   JOURNAL OF COASTAL CONSERVATION

Mean and turbulent velocity fields near rigid and flexible plants and the implications for deposition

(2013) Alejandra C. Ortiz et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-EARTH SURFACE

Interaction networks in coastal soft-sediments highlight the potential for change in ecological resilience

(2012) S. F. Thrush et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Sediment patterns near a model patch of reedy emergent vegetation

(2012) Elizabeth M. Follett et al.   GEOMORPHOLOGY

Organism traits determine the strength of scale-dependent bio-geomorphic feedbacks: A flume study on three intertidal plant species

(2012) T.J. Bouma et al.   GEOMORPHOLOGY

Impact of vegetation die-off on spatial flow patterns over a tidal marsh

(2012) Stijn Temmerman et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Winter climate change and coastal wetland foundation species: salt marshes vs. mangrove forests in the southeastern United States

(2012) Michael J. Osland et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Vegetation-microclimate feedbacks in woodland-grassland ecotones

(2012) Paolo D'Odorico et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

The response of basin wetlands to climate changes: a review of case studies from the Swan Coastal Plain, south-western Australia

(2012) C. A. Semeniuk et al.   HYDROBIOLOGIA

Distinguishing wetland vegetation and channel features with object-based image segmentation

(2012) Kevan B. Moffett et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF REMOTE SENSING

Long term land cover and seagrass mapping using Landsat and object-based image analysis from 1972 to 2010 in the coastal environment of South East Queensland, Australia

(2012) Mitchell B. Lyons et al.   ISPRS JOURNAL OF PHOTOGRAMMETRY AND REMOTE SENSING

Airborne Remote Sensing of Coastal Features and Processes: An Overview

(2012) Victor Klemas   JOURNAL OF COASTAL RESEARCH

Hydrodynamics of vegetated channels

(2012) Heidi M. Nepf   JOURNAL OF HYDRAULIC RESEARCH

Recovery trajectories during state change from bare sediment to eelgrass dominance

(2012) KJ McGlathery et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Estimating Global “Blue Carbon” Emissions from Conversion and Degradation of Vegetated Coastal Ecosystems

(2012) Linwood Pendleton et al.   PLoS One

Hydroperiod regime controls the organization of plant species in wetlands

(2012) R. Foti et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Towards a theory of ecotone resilience: Coastal vegetation on a salinity gradient

(2012) Jiang Jiang et al.   THEORETICAL POPULATION BIOLOGY

Secondary succession impairment in restored mangroves

(2012) André Scarlate Rovai et al.   WETLANDS ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Slowing Down in Spatially Patterned Ecosystems at the Brink of Collapse

(2011) Vasilis Dakos et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Flow and Transport in Regions with Aquatic Vegetation

(2011) Heidi M. Nepf   Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics

Biogeomorphology of tidal landforms: physical and biological processes shaping the tidal landscape

(2011) Andrea D'Alpaos et al.   Ecohydrology

The role of sponge competition on coral reef alternative steady states

(2011) Manuel González-Rivero et al.   ECOLOGICAL MODELLING

A blueprint for blue carbon: toward an improved understanding of the role of vegetated coastal habitats in sequestering CO2

(2011) Elizabeth Mcleod et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Rapid wetland expansion during European settlement and its implication for marsh survival under modern sediment delivery rates

(2011) Matthew L. Kirwan et al.   GEOLOGY

Multi-scale, object-based image analysis for mapping geomorphic and ecological zones on coral reefs

(2011) Stuart R. Phinn et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF REMOTE SENSING

Multi-scale GEOBIA with very high spatial resolution digital aerial imagery: scale, texture and image objects

(2011) Minho Kim et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF REMOTE SENSING

Flow interaction with dynamic vegetation patches: Implications for biogeomorphic evolution of a tidal landscape

(2011) W. Vandenbruwaene et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Stability and resilience of seagrass meadows to seasonal and interannual dynamics and environmental stress

(2011) Joel A. Carr et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

An integrated field and remote sensing approach for mapping Seagrass Cover, Moreton Bay, Australia

(2011) C.M. Roelfsema et al.   Journal of Spatial Science

Intercomparison of shallow water bathymetry, hydro-optics, and benthos mapping techniques in Australian and Caribbean coastal environments

(2011) Arnold G. Dekker et al.   LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY-METHODS

Modeling the effects of climate change on eelgrass stability and resilience: future scenarios and leading indicators of collapse

(2011) JA Carr et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Numerical models of salt marsh evolution: Ecological, geomorphic, and climatic factors

(2011) Sergio Fagherazzi et al.   REVIEWS OF GEOPHYSICS

Salinity Influence on Methane Emissions from Tidal Marshes

(2011) Hanna J. Poffenbarger et al.   WETLANDS

Transferability of object-based rule sets for mapping coastal high marsh habitat among different regions in Georgian Bay, Canada

(2011) Daniel Rokitnicki-Wojcik et al.   WETLANDS ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Integrating Quickbird Multi-Spectral Satellite and Field Data: Mapping Bathymetry, Seagrass Cover, Seagrass Species and Change in Moreton Bay, Australia in 2004 and 2007

(2011) Mitchell Lyons et al.   Remote Sensing

Remote Sensing of Mangrove Ecosystems: A Review

(2011) Claudia Kuenzer et al.   Remote Sensing

Spatial Self‐Organization on Intertidal Mudflats through Biophysical Stress Divergence

(2010) Ellen J. Weerman et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Community shifts, alternative stable states, biogeochemical controls and feedbacks in eutrophic coastal lagoons: a brief overview

(2010) Pierluigi Viaroli et al.   AQUATIC CONSERVATION-MARINE AND FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEMS

The present and future role of coastal wetland vegetation in protecting shorelines: answering recent challenges to the paradigm

(2010) Keryn B. Gedan et al.   CLIMATIC CHANGE

Mapping changes to vegetation pattern in a restoring wetland: Finding pattern metrics that are consistent across spatial scale and time

(2010) Maggi Kelly et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

Recruitment facilitation can drive alternative states on temperate reefs

(2010) Marissa L. Baskett et al.   ECOLOGY

Spatial self-organized patterning in seagrasses along a depth gradient of an intertidal ecosystem

(2010) Tjisse van der Heide et al.   ECOLOGY

Mangrove Forest and Soil Development on a Rapidly Accreting Shore in New Zealand

(2010) Catherine E. Lovelock et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

The Effects of Reduced Tidal Flushing on Mangrove Structure and Function Across a Disturbance Gradient

(2010) Rachel J. Harris et al.   Estuaries and Coasts

Remote sensing of intertidal morphological change in Morecambe Bay, U.K., between 1991 and 2007

(2010) D.C. Mason et al.   ESTUARINE COASTAL AND SHELF SCIENCE

Sediment infilling and wetland formation dynamics in an active crevasse splay of the Mississippi River delta

(2010) Donald R. Cahoon et al.   GEOMORPHOLOGY

Limits on the adaptability of coastal marshes to rising sea level

(2010) Matthew L. Kirwan et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Integrating field data with high spatial resolution multispectral satellite imagery for calibration and validation of coral reef benthic community maps

(2010) Chris Roelfsema   Journal of Applied Remote Sensing

Remote Sensing Techniques for Studying Coastal Ecosystems: An Overview

(2010) Victor Klemas   JOURNAL OF COASTAL RESEARCH

The use of chronosequences in studies of ecological succession and soil development

(2010) Lawrence R. Walker et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

A numerical model for the coupled long-term evolution of salt marshes and tidal flats

(2010) Giulio Mariotti et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

The importance of being coupled: Stable states and catastrophic shifts in tidal biomorphodynamics

(2010) Marco Marani et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Stability and bistability of seagrass ecosystems in shallow coastal lagoons: Role of feedbacks with sediment resuspension and light attenuation

(2010) J. Carr et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Multiple stable states and relationship between thresholds in processes and states

(2010) PS Petraitis et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Predicting future ecological degradation based on modelled thresholds

(2010) PG Fairweather et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Ecological thresholds in marine communities: theory, experiments and management

(2010) RW Osman et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Phase shifts and stable states on coral reefs

(2010) SR Dudgeon et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Root Effect of Three Vegetation Types on Shoreline Stabilization of Chongming Island, Shanghai

(2010) Qin DU et al.   PEDOSPHERE

Nutrients and Hydrology Indicate the Driving Mechanisms of Peatland Surface Patterning

(2009) Maarten B. Eppinga et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Increase in seagrass distribution at Bourgneuf Bay (France) detected by spatial remote sensing

(2009) Laurent Barillé et al.   AQUATIC BOTANY

Applying remote sensing techniques to monitor shifting wetland vegetation: A case study of Danshui River estuary mangrove communities, Taiwan

(2009) Tsai-Ming Lee et al.   ECOLOGICAL ENGINEERING

The role of riparian trees in maintaining riverbank stability: A review of Australian experience and practice

(2009) T.C.T. Hubble et al.   ECOLOGICAL ENGINEERING

Consequences of Climate Change on the Ecogeomorphology of Coastal Wetlands

(2009) John W. Day et al.   Estuaries and Coasts

Predicting the retreat and migration of tidal forests along the northern Gulf of Mexico under sea-level rise

(2009) Thomas W. Doyle et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Separation of Ground and Low Vegetation Signatures in LiDAR Measurements of Salt-Marsh Environments

(2009) Cheng Wang et al.   IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON GEOSCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING

Field and Remote-Sensing Assessment of Mangrove Forests and Seagrass Beds in the Northwestern Part of the United Arab Emirates

(2009) Fares M. Howari et al.   JOURNAL OF COASTAL RESEARCH

Morphological evolution of the Venice lagoon: Evidence from the past and trend for the future

(2009) Luca Carniello et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Deeply gapped vegetation patterns: On crown/root allometry, criticality and desertification

(2009) René Lefever et al.   JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY

Effects of shoot stiffness, shoot size and current velocity on scouring sediment from around seedlings and propagules

(2009) TJ Bouma et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Early-warning signals for critical transitions

(2009) Marten Scheffer et al.   NATURE

Mathematical models of vegetation pattern formation in ecohydrology

(2009) F. Borgogno et al.   REVIEWS OF GEOPHYSICS

Detection of Seagrass Distribution Changes from 1991 to 2006 in Xincun Bay, Hainan, with Satellite Remote Sensing

(2009) Dingtian Yang et al.   SENSORS

The Value of Coastal Wetlands for Hurricane Protection

(2008) Robert Costanza et al.   AMBIO

SPATIAL DECOUPLING OF FACILITATION AND COMPETITION AT THE ORIGIN OF GAPPED VEGETATION PATTERNS

(2008) Nicolas Barbier et al.   ECOLOGY

Regular Surface Patterning of Peatlands: Confronting Theory with Field Data

(2008) Maarten B. Eppinga et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

Potential for Sudden Shifts in Transient Systems: Distinguishing Between Local and Landscape-Scale Processes

(2008) Bregje K. van Wesenbeeck et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

Reforming Watershed Restoration: Science in Need of Application and Applications in Need of Science

(2008) Margaret A. Palmer   Estuaries and Coasts

Analyzing the habitat suitability for migratory birds at the Chongming Dongtan Nature Reserve in Shanghai, China

(2008) Bo Tian et al.   ESTUARINE COASTAL AND SHELF SCIENCE

Detecting the intertidal morphologic change using satellite data

(2008) Joo-Hyung Ryu et al.   ESTUARINE COASTAL AND SHELF SCIENCE

Forecasting the effects of accelerated sea-level rise on tidal marsh ecosystem services

(2008) Christopher Craft et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Tidal marshes as disequilibrium landscapes? Lags between morphology and Holocene sea level change

(2008) Matthew L. Kirwan et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

The global biogeography of semi-arid periodic vegetation patterns

(2008) Vincent Deblauwe et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Energy dissipation in non-uniform mangrove forests of arbitrary depth

(2008) Phuoc Vo-Luong et al.   JOURNAL OF MARINE SYSTEMS

Remote sensing imagery in vegetation mapping: a review

(2008) Y. Xie et al.   Journal of Plant Ecology

Testing the intermediate disturbance hypothesis in species-poor systems: A simulation experiment for mangrove forests

(2008) Cyril Piou et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Consequences of shoot density and stiffness for ecosystem engineering by benthic macrophytes in flow dominated areas: a hydrodynamic flume study

(2008) G Peralta et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Alternative states on coral reefs: beyond coral–macroalgal phase shifts

(2008) AV Norström et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Density-dependent linkage of scale-dependent feedbacks: a flume study on the intertidal macrophyteSpartina anglica

(2008) T. J. Bouma et al.   OIKOS

Wetland change mapping for the U.S. mid-Atlantic region using an outlier detection technique

(2008) Eric M. Nielsen et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

The role of environmental context in mapping invasive plants with hyperspectral image data

(2008) M ANDREW et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

A systematic method for 3D mapping of mangrove forests based on Shuttle Radar Topography Mission elevation data, ICEsat/GLAS waveforms and field data: Application to Ciénaga Grande de Santa Marta, Colombia

(2008) Marc Simard et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Integrating multi-temporal spectral and structural information to map wetland vegetation in a lower Connecticut River tidal marsh

(2008) Martha S. Gilmore et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Mapping seagrass species, cover and biomass in shallow waters: An assessment of satellite multi-spectral and airborne hyper-spectral imaging systems in Moreton Bay (Australia)

(2008) Stuart Phinn et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Experimental Evidence for Spatial Self-Organization and Its Emergent Effects in Mussel Bed Ecosystems

(2008) J. van de Koppel et al.   SCIENCE

Regular pattern formation in real ecosystems

(2008) Max Rietkerk et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Spatial patterns, rates and mechanisms of saltmarsh cycles (Westerschelde, The Netherlands)

(2007) Daphne Van der Wal et al.   ESTUARINE COASTAL AND SHELF SCIENCE

Mangrove forests: Resilience, protection from tsunamis, and responses to global climate change

(2007) Daniel M. Alongi   ESTUARINE COASTAL AND SHELF SCIENCE

Does scale-dependent feedback explain spatial complexity in salt-marsh ecosystems?

(2007) Bregje K. van Wesenbeeck et al.   OIKOS