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Martin Miranda-Lange
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Plant stiffness and biomass as drivers for drag forces under extreme wave loading
A flume study on mimics
Moving water exerts drag forces on vegetation. The susceptibility of vegetation to bending and breakage determines its flow resistance, and chances of survival, under hydrodynamic loading. To evaluate the role of individual vegetation parameters in this water-vegetation interacti
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A full-scale controlled experiment was conducted on an excavated and re-assembled coastal wetland surface, typical of floristically diverse northwest European saltmarsh. The experiment was undertaken with true-to-scale water depths and waves in a large wave flume, in order to ass
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Vegetation-wave interactions are critical in determining the capacity of coastal salt marshes to reduce wave energy (wave dissipation), enhance sedimentation and protect the shoreline from erosion. While vegetation-induced wave dissipation is increasingly recognized in low wav ...
Coastal communities around the world face an increasing risk from flooding as a result of rising sea level, increasing storminess and land subsidence12. Salt marshes can act as natural buffer zones, providing protection from waves during storms37. However ...