A global synthesis of the effectiveness of sedimentation-enhancing strategies for river deltas and estuaries

Coastal wetlands can be saved from sea level rise by recreating past tidal regimes

(2021) Mahmood Sadat-Noori et al.   Scientific Reports

Spatial and seasonal variability of sediment accumulation potential through controlled flooding of the beels located in the polders of the Ganges‐Brahmaputra‐Meghna delta of southwest Bangladesh

(2021) Md Feroz Islam et al.   HYDROLOGICAL PROCESSES

Flood risk reduction by parallel flood defences – Case-study of a coastal multifunctional flood protection zone

(2021) Richard J.C. Marijnissen et al.   COASTAL ENGINEERING

Projections of Global Delta Land Loss From Sea‐Level Rise in the 21st Century

(2021) Jaap H. Nienhuis et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Importance of high severity in a physical removal treatment for controlling invasive Spartina alterniflora

(2021) Long Tang et al.   ECOLOGICAL ENGINEERING

Global-scale human impact on delta morphology has led to net land area gain

(2020) J. H. Nienhuis et al.   NATURE

Quantifying expansion and removal of Spartina alterniflora on Chongming island, China, using time series Landsat images during 1995–2018

(2020) Xi Zhang et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Coastal flooding will disproportionately impact people on river deltas

(2020) Douglas A. Edmonds et al.   Nature Communications

Managing erosion of mangrove-mud coasts with permeable dams – lessons learned

(2020) Johan C. Winterwerp et al.   ECOLOGICAL ENGINEERING

Water and Climate Governance in Deltas: On the Relevance of Anticipatory, Interactive, and Transformative Modes of Governance

(2020) Annisa Triyanti et al.   Water

Intertidal wetland vegetation dynamics under rising sea levels

(2020) Duncan Rayner et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Tracking three decades of land use and land cover transformation trajectories in China's large river deltas

(2019) Tiantian Ma et al.   LAND DEGRADATION & DEVELOPMENT

Mississippi river sediment diversions and coastal wetland sustainability: Synthesis of responses to freshwater, sediment, and nutrient inputs

(2019) T. Elsey-Quirk et al.   ESTUARINE COASTAL AND SHELF SCIENCE

A review of sediment diversion in the Mississippi River Deltaic Plain

(2019) Kehui Xu et al.   ESTUARINE COASTAL AND SHELF SCIENCE

Water and land: Environmental governance and Chinese eco-development

(2019) Linjun Xie et al.   JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION

Time is running out for sand

(2019) Mette Bendixen et al.   NATURE

Projections of declining fluvial sediment delivery to major deltas worldwide in response to climate change and anthropogenic stress

(2019) Frances E Dunn et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Developed river deltas: are they sustainable?

(2019) Daniel Loucks   Environmental Research Letters

Bacterial Succession in Salt Marsh Soils Along a Short-term Invasion Chronosequence of Spartina alterniflora in the Yellow River Estuary, China

(2019) Guangliang Zhang et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

Mitigating the Effects of Sea-Level Rise on Estuaries of the Mississippi Delta Plain Using River Diversions

(2019) Eric D. White et al.   Water

Morphological Evolution of an Intertidal Area Following a Set-Back Scheme: A Case Study From the Perkpolder Basin (Netherlands)

(2019) Riccardo Brunetta et al.   Frontiers in Earth Science

Productivity of invasive saltmarsh plant Spartina alterniflora along the coast of China: A meta-analysis

(2018) Shaoyan Zheng et al.   ECOLOGICAL ENGINEERING

A model of water and sediment balance as determinants of relative sea level rise in contemporary and future deltas

(2018) Zachary D. Tessler et al.   GEOMORPHOLOGY

Anatomy of Mississippi Delta growth and its implications for coastal restoration

(2018) Elizabeth L. Chamberlain et al.   Science Advances

Losses of salt marsh in China: Trends, threats and management

(2018) Jiali Gu et al.   ESTUARINE COASTAL AND SHELF SCIENCE

Long-Term Management Policies of Reservoirs: Possible Re-Use of Dredged Sediments for Coastal Nourishment

(2018) Annamaria De Vincenzo et al.   Water

Beneficial use of dredged sediment to enhance salt marsh development by applying a ‘Mud Motor’

(2018) Martin J. Baptist et al.   ECOLOGICAL ENGINEERING

Tidal river management in the south west Ganges-Brahmaputra delta in Bangladesh: Moving towards a transdisciplinary approach?

(2017) Animesh K. Gain et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & POLICY

Tidal Marsh Restoration Design Affects Feedbacks Between Inundation and Elevation Change

(2017) Lotte Oosterlee et al.   Estuaries and Coasts

Factors controlling sediment trapping in two freshwater tidal wetlands in the Biesbosch area, The Netherlands

(2017) Eveline C. van der Deijl et al.   JOURNAL OF SOILS AND SEDIMENTS

Social capital, interactive governance and coastal protection: The effectiveness of mangrove ecosystem-based strategies in promoting inclusive development in Demak, Indonesia

(2017) Annisa Triyanti et al.   OCEAN & COASTAL MANAGEMENT

Economic evaluation of using marine dredged material for erosion control along the northeast coast of the Nile Delta, Egypt

(2016) Omran Frihy et al.   Arabian Journal of Geosciences

The cost and feasibility of marine coastal restoration

(2016) Elisa Bayraktarov et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

The effects of artificial recharge of groundwater on controlling land subsidence and its influence on groundwater quality and aquifer energy storage in Shanghai, China

(2016) Xiaoqing Shi et al.   Environmental Earth Sciences

Large infrequently operated river diversions for Mississippi delta restoration

(2016) John W. Day et al.   ESTUARINE COASTAL AND SHELF SCIENCE

Morphodynamics of the erosional phase of crevasse-splay evolution and implications for river sediment diversion function

(2016) Brendan T. Yuill et al.   GEOMORPHOLOGY

The effect of land reclamations and sediment extraction on the suspended sediment concentration in the Ems Estuary

(2016) D.S. van Maren et al.   MARINE GEOLOGY

Sustainable deltas: livelihoods, ecosystem services, and policy implications

(2016) Fabrice G. Renaud et al.   Sustainability Science

The impact of channel deepening and dredging on estuarine sediment concentration

(2015) D.S. van Maren et al.   CONTINENTAL SHELF RESEARCH

Inundation and salinity impacts to above- and belowground productivity in Spartina patens and Spartina alterniflora in the Mississippi River deltaic plain: Implications for using river diversions as restoration tools

(2015) Gregg A. Snedden et al.   ECOLOGICAL ENGINEERING

Delta Subsidence: An Imminent Threat to Coastal Populations

(2015) Charles W. Schmidt   ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH PERSPECTIVES

Profiling risk and sustainability in coastal deltas of the world

(2015) Z. D. Tessler et al.   SCIENCE

Sustainable hydraulic engineering through building with nature

(2015) Huib J. de Vriend et al.   Journal of Hydro-environment Research

Governing the future? The potential of adaptive delta management to contribute to governance capabilities for dealing with the wicked problem of climate change adaptation

(2015) Art Dewulf et al.   Journal of Water and Climate Change

Flood risk of natural and embanked landscapes on the Ganges–Brahmaputra tidal delta plain

(2015) L. W. Auerbach et al.   Nature Climate Change

Evaluation of the combined threat from sea-level rise and sedimentation reduction to the coastal wetlands in the Yangtze Estuary, China

(2014) Heng Wang et al.   ECOLOGICAL ENGINEERING

Damming deltas: A practice of the past? Towards nature-based flood defenses

(2014) Bregje K. van Wesenbeeck et al.   ESTUARINE COASTAL AND SHELF SCIENCE

Forecasting landscape effects of Mississippi River diversions on elevation and accretion in Louisiana deltaic wetlands under future environmental uncertainty scenarios

(2014) Hongqing Wang et al.   ESTUARINE COASTAL AND SHELF SCIENCE

Climate change: Protect the world's deltas

(2014) Liviu Giosan et al.   NATURE

Simulating Fish Movement Responses to and Potential Salinity Stress from Large-Scale River Diversions

(2014) Kenneth A. Rose et al.   Marine and Coastal Fisheries

The response of deltas to sea-level rise: Natural mechanisms and management options to adapt to high-end scenarios

(2013) Carles Ibáñez et al.   ECOLOGICAL ENGINEERING

A New Alternative to Saving Our Beaches from Sea-Level Rise: The Sand Engine

(2013) Marcel J.F. Stive et al.   JOURNAL OF COASTAL RESEARCH

Ecosystem-based coastal defence in the face of global change

(2013) Stijn Temmerman et al.   NATURE

Cost analysis of water and sediment diversions to optimize land building in the Mississippi River delta

(2013) Melissa A. Kenney et al.   WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH

Exploring pathways for sustainable water management in river deltas in a changing environment

(2012) Marjolijn Haasnoot et al.   CLIMATIC CHANGE

(Dis)Connectivity in catchment sediment cascades: a fresh look at the sediment delivery problem

(2012) Kirstie Fryirs   EARTH SURFACE PROCESSES AND LANDFORMS

Depositional dynamics in a river diversion receiving basin: The case of the West Bay Mississippi River Diversion

(2012) Alexander S. Kolker et al.   ESTUARINE COASTAL AND SHELF SCIENCE

Restoration sedimentology

(2012) Douglas A. Edmonds   Nature Geoscience

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

(2010) Donald R. Cahoon et al.   GEOMORPHOLOGY

The use of large water and sediment diversions in the lower Mississippi River (Louisiana) for coastal restoration

(2010) Mead A. Allison et al.   JOURNAL OF HYDROLOGY

Spartina alterniflora invasions in the Yangtze River estuary, China: An overview of current status and ecosystem effects

(2009) Bo Li et al.   ECOLOGICAL ENGINEERING

Plant Invasions in China: What Is to Be Expected in the Wake of Economic Development?

(2008) Ewald Weber et al.   BIOSCIENCE

Invasive Spartina and reduced sediments: Shanghai's dangerous silver bullet

(2008) J. Chen et al.   Journal of Plant Ecology

An experimental study on physical controls of an exotic plant Spartina alterniflora in Shanghai, China

(2007) Hepeng Li et al.   ECOLOGICAL ENGINEERING