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SUBMITTER: Peteet DM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6187168 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Peteet Dorothy M DM Nichols Jonathan J Kenna Timothy T Chang Clara C Browne James J Reza Mohammad M Kovari Stephen S Liberman Louisa L Stern-Protz Stephanie S
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20180924 41
New York City (NYC) is representative of many vulnerable coastal urban populations, infrastructures, and economies threatened by global sea level rise. The steady loss of marshes in NYC's Jamaica Bay is typical of many urban estuaries worldwide. Essential to the restoration and preservation of these key wetlands is an understanding of their sedimentation. Here we present a reconstruction of the history of mineral and organic sediment fluxes in Jamaica Bay marshes over three centuries, using a co ...[more]