Integrated modeling framework to quantify the coastal protection services supplied by vegetation
Integrated modeling framework to quantify the coastal protection services supplied by vegetation
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DOI：
10.1002/2014jc009821
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发表时间：
2015-01-01
影响因子：
3.6
通讯作者：
Kim, Choong-Ki
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作者：
Guannel, Greg;Ruggiero, Peter;Kim, Choong-Ki
植被可以通过降低近岸波高和改变沉积物输运过程来保护社区。然而，缺乏定量的方法来评估海岸保护服务，或利益，在广泛的沿海环境中的植被提供给人们。为了开始填补这一知识空白，我们提出了一个综合的建模方法，量化植被如何修改近岸processesincluding波高，平均和总水位的衰减，减少海岸线侵蚀风暴期间。我们将该模型应用于理想化的海草沙和红树林泥的情况下，并说明其潜力，通过量化这些栖息地如何减少水位和沉积物流失超过将观察到的植被的情况下。综合建模方法提供了一种有效的方法来量化植被提供的海岸保护服务，并强调了具体的研究需要，以改善植被修改波浪引起的过程的方式表示。
Vegetation can protect communities by reducing nearshore wave height and altering sediment transport processes. However, quantitative approaches for evaluating the coastal protection services, or benefits, supplied by vegetation to people in a wide range of coastal environments are lacking. To begin to fill this knowledge gap, we propose an integrated modeling approach for quantifying how vegetation modifies nearshore processesincluding the attenuation of wave height, mean and total water leveland reduces shoreline erosion during storms. We apply the model to idealized seagrass-sand and mangrove-mud cases, and illustrate its potential by quantifying how those habitats reduce water levels and sediment loss beyond what would be observed in the absence of vegetation. The integrated modeling approach provides an efficient way to quantify the coastal protection services supplied by vegetation and highlights specific research needs for improved representations of the ways in which vegetation modifies wave-induced processes.