Barrier Dynamics and Response to Changing Climate

✍ Scribed by Laura J. Moore,A. Brad Murray (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 407
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book presents chapters, written by leading coastal scientists, which collectively depict the current understanding of the processes that shape barrier islands and barrier spits, with an emphasis on the response of these landforms to changing conditions. A majority of the world’s population lives along the coast at the dynamic intersection between terrestrial and marine ecosystems and landscapes. As narrow, low-lying landforms, barriers are especially vulnerable to changes in sea level, storminess, the geographic distribution of grass species, and the rate of sand supply—some barriers will undergo rapid changes in state (e.g., from landward migrating to disintegrating), on human time scales. Attempts by humans to prevent change can hasten the loss of these landforms, threatening their continued existence as well as the recreational, financial and ecosystem service benefits they provide. Understanding the processes and interactions that drive landscape response to climate change and human actions is essential to adaptation. As managers and governments struggle to plan for the future along low-lying coasts worldwide, and scientists conduct research that provides useful guidance, this volume offers a much-needed compilation for these groups, as well as a window into the science of barrier dynamics for anyone who is generally interested in the impacts of a changing world on coastal environments.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-xxiii
Front Matter ....Pages 1-1
Runaway Barrier Island Transgression Concept: Global Case Studies (Duncan M. FitzGerald, Christopher J. Hein, Zoe Hughes, Mark Kulp, Ioannis Georgiou, Michael Miner)....Pages 3-56
Drowned Barriers as Archives of Coastal-Response to Sea-Level Rise (Claire L. Mellett, Andrew J. Plater)....Pages 57-89
Barrier Island and Estuary Co-evolution in Response to Holocene Climate and Sea-Level Change: Pamlico Sound and the Outer Banks Barrier Islands, North Carolina, USA (David Mallinson, Stephen Culver, Eduardo Leorri, Siddhartha Mitra, Ryan Mulligan, Stanley Riggs)....Pages 91-120
Abrupt Increase in Washover Deposition Along a Transgressive Barrier Island During the Late Nineteenth Century Acceleration in Sea-Level Rise (Antonio B. Rodriguez, Winnie Yu, Ethan J. Theuerkauf)....Pages 121-145
Follets Island: A Case of Unprecedented Change and Transition from Rollover to Subaqueous Shoals (Christopher I. Odezulu, Jorge Lorenzo-Trueba, Davin J. Wallace, John B. Anderson)....Pages 147-174
Role of the Foredune in Controlling Barrier Island Response to Sea Level Rise (Chris Houser, Patrick Barrineau, Brianna Hammond, Brooke Saari, Elizabeth Rentschler, Sarah Trimble et al.)....Pages 175-207
Front Matter ....Pages 209-209
Geometric Constraints on Long-Term Barrier Migration: From Simple to Surprising (A. Brad Murray, Laura J. Moore)....Pages 211-241
Shoreface Controls on Barrier Evolution and Shoreline Change (Peter J. Cowell, Michael A. Kinsela)....Pages 243-275
Morphodynamics of Barrier Response to Sea-Level Rise (Andrew D. Ashton, Jorge Lorenzo-Trueba)....Pages 277-304
The Role of Ecomorphodynamic Feedbacks and Landscape Couplings in Influencing the Response of Barriers to Changing Climate (Laura J. Moore, Evan B. Goldstein, Orencio Durán Vinent, David Walters, Matthew Kirwan, Rebecca Lauzon et al.)....Pages 305-336
The Role of Vegetation in Determining Dune Morphology, Exposure to Sea-Level Rise, and Storm-Induced Coastal Hazards: A U.S. Pacific Northwest Perspective (Peter Ruggiero, Sally Hacker, Eric Seabloom, Phoebe Zarnetske)....Pages 337-361
Barrier Islands as Coupled Human–Landscape Systems (Dylan E. McNamara, Eli D. Lazarus)....Pages 363-383
Back Matter ....Pages 385-395

✦ Subjects

Physical Geography