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Coastal Wetland Vulnerability to Relative Sea-Level Rise: Wetland Elevation Trends and Process Controls

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Wetlands and Natural Resource Management

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  1. US Geological Survey, Patuxent Wildlife Research Center, Laurel, Maryland, USA

    Donald R. Cahoon & Philippe F. Hensel

  2. Depatment of Geography, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

    Tom Spencer

  3. Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of New Orleans, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

    Denise J. Reed

  4. US Geological Survey, National Wetlands Research Center, Lafayette, Louisiana, USA

    Karen L. McKee

  5. Rivers and Wetland Unit, Science and Policy Division, Department of Environment and Conservation, 59-61 Goulburn St, Sydney, PO Box A290, Sydney South, NSW, 1232, Australia

    Neil Saintilan

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Cahoon, D.R., Hensel, P.F., Spencer, T., Reed, D.J., McKee, K.L., Saintilan, N. (2006). Coastal Wetland Vulnerability to Relative Sea-Level Rise: Wetland Elevation Trends and Process Controls. In: Verhoeven, J.T.A., Beltman, B., Bobbink, R., Whigham, D.F. (eds) Wetlands and Natural Resource Management. Ecological Studies, vol 190. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg . https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-33187-2_12

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