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Sea Level Hazards:

Impact to coastal wetlands

Beach erosion

Inundation of land

Increased flood and storm damage

Increased salinity of estuaries and aquifers

Other Impacts

References

Additional Resources

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References:

Baldwin, A. H., K. L. McKee, I. A. Mendelssohn, The influence of vegetation, salinity, and inundation on seed banks of oligohaline coastal marshes, American Journal of Botany, 83, 4, 470-479, 1996.

Davis, R. A. Jr. The Evolving Coast. Scientific American Library: New York, 1997.

Dubois, R. N., Barrier beach erosion and rising sea level, Geology, 18, 1150-1152, 1990.

Gornitz, V., Global coastal hazards from future sea level rise, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology (Global and Planetary Change Section), 89, 379-398, 1991.

Michener, W. K., E. R. Blood, K. L. Bildstein, M. M. Brinson, and L.R. Gardner, Climate change, hurricanes and tropical storms, and rising sea level in coastal wetlands, Ecological Applications, 7, 3, 770-801, 1997.

Olff, H., J. De Leeuw, J. P. Bakker, R. J. Platerink, H. J. Van Wijnens, and W. De Munck, Vegetation succession and herbivory in a salt marsh: changes induced by sea level rise and silt deposition along an elevational gradient, Journal of Ecology, 85, 799-814, 1997.

Regional Impacts of Climate Change (IPCC)-North America, 1998, [Online] Available: www.epa.gov/oppeoee/globalwarming/reports/pubs/ipcc/chp8/america13.html [1999, January 27].


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