Open AccessRising Seas and Agriculture Created Wetlands Along the U.S. East Coast
Author(s) -
Jerald Pinson
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
eos
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.316
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 2324-9250
pISSN - 0096-3941
DOI - 10.1029/2020eo150774
Subject(s) - wetland , east coast , geography , agriculture , oceanography , fishery , environmental science , archaeology , physical geography , geology , ecology , biology
Most of the tidal marshes along the eastern coast of the United States formed within the past 6,000 years due to a combination of slowly rising seas and European colonization.