The Coastal Barrier Island Network (CBIN): Future management strategies for barrier islands
Barrier islands are ecosystems that border coastal shorelines and form a protective barrier between continentalshorelines and the wave action originating offshore. In addition to forming and maintaining an array of coastal andestuarine habitats of ecological and economic importance, barrier island coastlines also include some of the greatestconcentrations of human populations and accompanying anthropogenic development in the world. These islandshave an extremely dynamic nature whereby major changes in geomorphology and hydrology can occur over shorttime periods (i.e. days, hours) in response to extreme episodic storm events such as hurricanes and northeasters. The native vegetation and geological stability of these ecosystems are tightly coupled with one another and arevulnerable to storm-related erosion events, particularly when also disturbed by anthropogenic development. (PDF contains 4 pages)
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| Format: | conference_item biblioteca |
| Language: | English |
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2010
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| Subjects: | Oceanography, Information Management, Earth Sciences, TCS22, |
| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1834/21578 |
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