期刊
ADVANCES IN WATER RESOURCES
卷 93, 期 -, 页码 249-264出版社
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.advwatres.2015.11.020
关键词
Sea-level rise; Sediment transport; Vegetation distribution; Tidal hydrodynamics; Numerical model
资金
- University of Padova project [CPDA133253/13]
- Erasmus Mundus programme of the European Union
Modeling efforts have considerably improved our understanding on the chief processes that govern the evolution of salt marshes under climate change. Yet the spatial dynamic response of salt marshes to sea-level rise that results from the interactions between the tidal landforms of interest and the presence of bio-geomorphic features has not been addressed explicitly. Accordingly, we use a modeling framework that integrates the co-evolution of the marsh platform and the embedded tidal networks to study sea-level rise effects on spatial sediment and vegetation dynamics in microtidal salt marshes considering different ecological scenarios. The analysis unveils mechanisms that drive spatial variations in sedimentation rates in ways that increase marsh resilience to rising sea-levels. In particular, marsh survival is related to the effectiveness of transport of sediments toward the interior marshland. This study hints at additional dynamics related to the modulation of channel cross-sections affecting sediment advection in the channels and subsequent delivery in the inner marsh, which should be definitely considered in the study of marsh adaptability to sea-level rise and posterior management. (C) 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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