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Transient coastal landscapes: Rising sea level threatens salt marshes

Overview of attention for article published in Science of the Total Environment, June 2018
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Title
Transient coastal landscapes: Rising sea level threatens salt marshes
Published in
Science of the Total Environment, June 2018
DOI 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.05.235
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Authors

Ivan Valiela, Javier Lloret, Tynan Bowyer, Simon Miner, David Remsen, Elizabeth Elmstrom, Charlotte Cogswell, E. Robert Thieler

Abstract

Salt marshes are important coastal environments that provide key ecological services. As sea level rise has accelerated globally, concerns about the ability of salt marshes to survive submergence are increasing. Previous estimates of likely survival of salt marshes were based on ratios of sea level rise to marsh platform accretion. Here we took advantage of an unusual, long-term (1979-2015), spatially detailed comparison of changes in a representative New England salt marsh to provide an empirical estimate of habitat losses based on actual measurements. We show prominent changes in habitat mosaic within the marsh, consistent and coincident with increased submergence and coastal erosion. Model results suggest that at current rates of sea level rise, marsh platform accretion, habitat loss, and with the limitation of the widespread "coastal squeeze", the entire ecosystem might disappear by the beginning of the next century, a fate that might be likely for many salt marshes elsewhere. Meta-analysis of available data suggests that 40 to 95% of the world's salt marshes will be submerged, depending on whether sea level rise remains at current or reaches anticipated rates for the end of this century.

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Mendeley readers

The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 133 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.

Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 133 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 28 21%
Student > Ph. D. Student 23 17%
Researcher 18 14%
Student > Bachelor 13 10%
Student > Doctoral Student 5 4%
Other 13 10%
Unknown 33 25%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Environmental Science 40 30%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 23 17%
Earth and Planetary Sciences 19 14%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 2 2%
Design 2 2%
Other 6 5%
Unknown 41 31%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 3. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 24 November 2019.
All research outputs
#8,538,940
of 25,382,440 outputs
Outputs from Science of the Total Environment
#11,323
of 29,635 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#137,424
of 342,267 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Science of the Total Environment
#271
of 667 outputs
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