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Fig. 1: Change in delta area for decreasing, stable and increasing fluvial sediment fluxes.

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Data to reproduce Fig. 1 and Supplementary Figs. 1–3 are available on https://github.com/jhnienhuis/GlobalDeltaChange under pub_figures.

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Code to reproduce Fig. 1 and Supplementary Figs. 1–3 is available on https://github.com/jhnienhuis/GlobalDeltaChange under pub_figures.

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Acknowledgements

J.H.N. was supported by US National Science Foundation award EAR1810855 and the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) (vi.veni.192.123).

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  1. Department of Physical Geography, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

    J. H. Nienhuis

  2. Department of Geology and Geophysics, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, USA

    A. D. Ashton

  3. Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA

    D. A. Edmonds

  4. Environmental Sciences, Wageningen University & Research, Wageningen, The Netherlands

    A. J. F. Hoitink

  5. Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA

    A. J. Kettner

  6. Earth & Environmental Sciences Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, USA

    J. C. Rowland

  7. Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, USA

    T. E. Törnqvist

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J.H.N. produced the figures. J.H.N., A.D.A., D.A.E., A.J.F.H., A.J.K., J.C.R. and T.E.T. discussed the results and contributed to the text.

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Nienhuis, J.H., Ashton, A.D., Edmonds, D.A. et al. Reply to: Concerns about data linking delta land gain to human action. Nature 614, E26–E28 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-022-05625-w

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