Coastal vegetation interacts with water flow and the transport of sand and sediment: this interaction plays a key role in the rise of characteristic landscape forms in coastal habitats. Scientists from the University of Utrecht, the Netherlands Institute for Sea Research and University of Antwerp ( Global Change Ecology Centre , Research Group Ecosystem Management ) provide more insight in this interaction in their new paper that appeared recently. UAntwerp researchers Jim Van Belzen , Olivier Gourgue and Stijn Temmerman contributed to the study.
The new study shows that not only physical characteristics (root density, shoot thickness, plant size, ...) are important. ...