Total Water Level Mitigation Related to Fringing Reef and Upperbeach Vegetation Status at a Hurricane Exposed Coast
Increasing evidence suggests that coastal ecosystems provide significant protection against coastal flooding. However, these ecosystems are highly impacted by local human activities and climate change, which has resulted in reducing their extent and can limit their role in flooding mitigation. Most...
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| author | Thibault Laigre Yann Balouin Deborah Villarroel-Lamb Alexandre Nicolae Lerma Nico Valentini Manuel Moisan Ywenn De La Torre |
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| description | Increasing evidence suggests that coastal ecosystems provide significant protection against coastal flooding. However, these ecosystems are highly impacted by local human activities and climate change, which has resulted in reducing their extent and can limit their role in flooding mitigation. Most studies dealing with the coastal protection offered by ecosystems focus on a single ecosystem and, also seldom assess potential differences in protection with changes in status of the ecosystem. Therefore, based on a Xbeach Non-hydrostatic numerical modeling approach, we quantified the coastal inundation response to different combinations of ecosystems’ health statuses. A combination of a fringing reef environment associated with a vegetated beach was chosen as this pattern is typical of many low-lying areas of the Caribbean and tropical areas in general. Our results, (1) highlight the potential of capitalizing on the combined impacts of multiple ecosystems on coastal protection, (2) alert to the consequences of further destruction of these ecosystems, (3) demonstrate the predominant role of vegetation with an increased sea-level rise and (4) provide strategies to limit the deleterious effects of present-day and future reef degradation. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-7ca5ad1011af4a33b6264a6a8d5271ae2023-11-17T11:58:08ZengMDPI AGJournal of Marine Science and Engineering2077-13122023-03-0111362010.3390/jmse11030620Total Water Level Mitigation Related to Fringing Reef and Upperbeach Vegetation Status at a Hurricane Exposed CoastThibault Laigre0Yann Balouin1Deborah Villarroel-Lamb2Alexandre Nicolae Lerma3Nico Valentini4Manuel Moisan5Ywenn De La Torre6Bureau de Recherches Géologiques et Minières, Parc d’Activités Colin—La Lézarde, 97170 Petit Bourg, FranceBureau de Recherches Géologiques et Minières, Universtité de Montpellier, 1039 Rue de Pinville, 34000 Montpellier, FranceSt. Augustine Campus, The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine 999183, Trinidad and TobagoBureau de Recherches Géologiques et Minières, Parc Technologique Europarc, 24 Av. Léonard de Vinci, 33600 Pessac, FranceBureau de Recherches Géologiques et Minières, Universtité de Montpellier, 1039 Rue de Pinville, 34000 Montpellier, FranceBureau de Recherches Géologiques et Minières, Parc d’Activités Colin—La Lézarde, 97170 Petit Bourg, FranceBureau de Recherches Géologiques et Minières, Parc d’Activités Colin—La Lézarde, 97170 Petit Bourg, FranceIncreasing evidence suggests that coastal ecosystems provide significant protection against coastal flooding. However, these ecosystems are highly impacted by local human activities and climate change, which has resulted in reducing their extent and can limit their role in flooding mitigation. Most studies dealing with the coastal protection offered by ecosystems focus on a single ecosystem and, also seldom assess potential differences in protection with changes in status of the ecosystem. Therefore, based on a Xbeach Non-hydrostatic numerical modeling approach, we quantified the coastal inundation response to different combinations of ecosystems’ health statuses. A combination of a fringing reef environment associated with a vegetated beach was chosen as this pattern is typical of many low-lying areas of the Caribbean and tropical areas in general. Our results, (1) highlight the potential of capitalizing on the combined impacts of multiple ecosystems on coastal protection, (2) alert to the consequences of further destruction of these ecosystems, (3) demonstrate the predominant role of vegetation with an increased sea-level rise and (4) provide strategies to limit the deleterious effects of present-day and future reef degradation.https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1312/11/3/620total water levelcoral reefupperbeach vegetationXbeachecosystem status |
| spellingShingle | Thibault Laigre Yann Balouin Deborah Villarroel-Lamb Alexandre Nicolae Lerma Nico Valentini Manuel Moisan Ywenn De La Torre Total Water Level Mitigation Related to Fringing Reef and Upperbeach Vegetation Status at a Hurricane Exposed Coast Journal of Marine Science and Engineering total water level coral reef upperbeach vegetation Xbeach ecosystem status |
| title | Total Water Level Mitigation Related to Fringing Reef and Upperbeach Vegetation Status at a Hurricane Exposed Coast |
| title_full | Total Water Level Mitigation Related to Fringing Reef and Upperbeach Vegetation Status at a Hurricane Exposed Coast |
| title_fullStr | Total Water Level Mitigation Related to Fringing Reef and Upperbeach Vegetation Status at a Hurricane Exposed Coast |
| title_full_unstemmed | Total Water Level Mitigation Related to Fringing Reef and Upperbeach Vegetation Status at a Hurricane Exposed Coast |
| title_short | Total Water Level Mitigation Related to Fringing Reef and Upperbeach Vegetation Status at a Hurricane Exposed Coast |
| title_sort | total water level mitigation related to fringing reef and upperbeach vegetation status at a hurricane exposed coast |
| topic | total water level coral reef upperbeach vegetation Xbeach ecosystem status |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1312/11/3/620 |
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