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Groundwater Discharge as a Source of Dissolved Carbon and Greenhouse Gases in a Subtropical Estuary by Sadat-Noori, Mahmood, Maher, Damien T, Santos, Isaac R

“…Groundwater may be highly enriched in dissolved carbon species, but its role as a source of carbon to coastal waters is still poorly constrained. Exports of…”
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Ecosystem Responses of a Tidal Freshwater Marsh Experiencing Saltwater Intrusion and Altered Hydrology by Neubauer, Scott C.

“…Tidal freshwater marshes exist in a dynamic environment where plant productivity, subsurface biogeochemical processes, and soil elevation respond to…”
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Erosion and Flooding—Threats to Coastal Infrastructure in the Arctic: A Case Study from Herschel Island, Yukon Territory, Canada by Radosavljevic, Boris, Lantuit, Hugues, Pollard, Wayne, Overduin, Paul, Couture, Nicole, Sachs, Torsten, Helm, Veit, Fritz, Michael

“…Arctic coastal infrastructure and cultural and archeological sites are increasingly vulnerable to erosion and flooding due to amplified warming of the Arctic,…”
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Declining Sediments and Rising Seas: an Unfortunate Convergence for Tidal Wetlands by Weston, Nathaniel B

“…The availability of suspended sediments will be a dominant factor influencing the stability of tidal wetlands as sea levels rise. Watershed-derived sediments…”
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Oceanography of the U.S. Pacific Northwest Coastal Ocean and estuaries with application to coastal ecology by Hickey, Barbara M, Banas, Neil S

“…Ocean processes are generally large scale on the U.S. Pacific Northwest coast; this is true of both seasonal variations and event-scale upwelling-downwelling…”
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Modeling Seagrass Density and Distribution in Response to Changes in Turbidity Stemming from Bivalve Filtration and Seagrass Sediment Stabilization by Roger I. E. Newell, Koch, Evamaria W.

“…In many areas of the North American mid-Atlantic coast, seagrass beds are either in decline or have disappeared due, in part, to high turbidity that reduces…”
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Sediment Nitrogen Fixation: a Call for Re-evaluating Coastal N Budgets by Newell, Silvia E., McCarthy, Mark J., Gardner, Wayne S., Fulweiler, Robinson W.

“…Coastal ocean primary productivity is often limited by nitrogen (N) availability, which is determined by the balance between N sources (e.g., N-fixation,…”
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The Arctic Ocean Estuary by McClelland, James W., Holmes, R. M., Dunton, K. H., Macdonald, R. W.

“…Large freshwater contributions to the Arctic Ocean from a variety of sources combine in what is, by global standards, a remarkably small ocean basin. Indeed,…”
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The Arctic Coastal Dynamics Database: A New Classification Scheme and Statistics on Arctic Permafrost Coastlines by Lantuit, Hugues, Overduin, Pier Paul, Couture, Nicole, Wetterich, Sebastian, Aré, Felix, Atkinson, David, Brown, Jerry, Cherkashov, Georgy, Drozdov, Dmitry, Forbes, Donald Lawrence, Graves-Gaylord, Allison, Grigoriev, Mikhail, Hubberten, Hans-Wolfgang, Jordan, James, Jorgenson, Torre, Ødegård, Rune Strand, Ogorodov, Stanislav, Pollard, Wayne H., Rachold, Volker, Sedenko, Sergey, Solomon, Steve, Steenhuisen, Frits, Streletskaya, Irina, Vasiliev, Alexander

“…Arctic permafrost coasts are sensitive to changing climate. The lengthening open water season and the increasing open water area are likely to induce greater…”
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Macroalgal Distribution Patterns in a Shallow, Soft-Bottom Lagoon, with Emphasis on the Nonnative Gracilaria vermiculophylla and Codium fragile by Thomsen, Mads Solgaard, McGlathery, Karen J., Tyler, Anna Christina

“…We determined the distribution of macroalgae in Hog Island Bay, a shallow coastal lagoon in Virginia, USA, seasonally at 12 sites from 1998 to 2000 and at 3…”
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Expansion of Tidal Marsh in Response to Sea-Level Rise: Gulf Coast of Florida, USA by Raabe, Ellen A, Stumpf, Richard P

“…Understanding the influence of future sea-level rise (SLR) on coastal ecosystems is improved by examining response of coastlines during historic periods of…”
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A Nearshore Model to Investigate the Effects of Seagrass Bed Geometry on Wave Attenuation and Suspended Sediment Transport by Chen, Shih-Nan, Sanford, Lawrence P., Koch, Evamaria W., Shi, Fengyan, North, Elizabeth W.

“…The effects of seagrass bed geometry on wave attenuation and suspended sediment transport were investigated using a modified Nearshore Community Model…”
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Hypoxia in the Northern Gulf of Mexico: Does the Science Support the Plan to Reduce, Mitigate, and Control Hypoxia? by Rabalais, N. N., Turner, R. E., Gupta, B. K. Sen, Boesch, D. F., Chapman, P., Murrell, M. C.

“…We update and reevaluate the scientific information on the distribution, history, and causes of continental shelf hypoxia that supports the 2001 Action Plan…”
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Harmful Algal Blooms and Eutrophication: Nutrient Sources, Composition, and Consequences by Anderson, Donald M., Glibert, Patricia M., Burkholder, JoAnn M.

“…Although algal blooms, including those considered toxic or harmful, can be natural phenomena, the nature of the global problem of harmful algal blooms (HABs)…”
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Rates and Forcing of Marsh Edge Erosion in a Shallow Coastal Bay by McLoughlin, Sean M, Wiberg, Patricia L, Safak, Ilgar, McGlathery, Karen J

“…Salt marshes can experience a significant land loss through erosion and retreat of their perimeter edges. Rates of shoreline change between 1957 and 2007 were…”
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Worldwide Typology of Nearshore Coastal Systems: Defining the Estuarine Filter of River Inputs to the Oceans by Dürr, Hans H., Laruelle, Goulven G., van Kempen, Cheryl M., Slomp, Caroline P., Meybeck, Michel, Middelkoop, Hans

“…We present a spatially explicit global overview of nearshore coastal types, based on hydrological, lithological and morphological criteria. A total of four…”
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Morphological Variation and Habitat Modification are Strongly Correlated for the Autogenic Ecosystem Engineer Spartina anglica (Common Cordgrass) by J. B. van Hulzen, van Soelen, J., Bouma, T. J.

“…We explored to what extent morphological variation and habitat modification are correlated for an autogenic ecosystem engineer, which is an organism that…”
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Seasonal Changes in Submarine Groundwater Discharge and Associated Nutrient Transport into a Tideless Semi-enclosed Embayment (Obama Bay, Japan) by Sugimoto, Ryo, Honda, Hisami, Kobayashi, Shiho, Takao, Yoshitake, Tahara, Daisuke, Tominaga, Osamu, Taniguchi, Makoto

“…We carried out a seasonal study of fresh submarine groundwater discharge (SGD) and associated nutrient fluxes in a semi-enclosed bay along a tideless coastal…”
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Mudflat Morphodynamics and the Impact of Sea Level Rise in South San Francisco Bay by van der Wegen, Mick, Jaffe, Bruce, Foxgrover, Amy, Roelvink, Dano

“…Estuarine tidal mudflats form unique habitats and maintain valuable ecosystems. Historic measurements of a mudflat in San Fancsico Bay over the past 150 years…”
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Reconstructing New England Salt Marsh Losses Using Historical Maps by Bromberg, Keryn D., Bertness, Mark D.

“…Analyses of habitat loss are often restricted to the past 75 years by the relative youth of aerial photography and remote sensing technologies. Although…”
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