Squeezing Out Dune Plants: Coastal Erosion, Global Sea-level Rise, And The Loss Of Sand Dune ...
23rd Sep 2005, 19:06 GMT
Researchers from Texas A&M University created a model to better understand the impacts of development and coastal erosion on plant communities, including plants that grow in the ever-shrinking strip of habitat between land and the ocean. Rusty Feagin, Douglas Sherman, and William Grant simulated varying levels of sea-level rise to understand the effects of erosion and development on sand dune plants. Their research appears in the September issue of Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment.