Publications by authors named "Philip A Tuley"
Article Synopsis
- The spatial pattern of vegetation in ecosystems near critical transitions may follow universal rules, aiding in predicting state changes in these systems.
- High-resolution imagery from 1972 to 2013 was used to study a North American coastal ecosystem experiencing woody plant encroachment.
- The study found that the size distribution of woody patches follows a power law, indicating critical transitions and highlighting feedbacks between vegetation and microclimate.
Due to their position at the land-sea interface, barrier islands are vulnerable to both oceanic and atmospheric climate change-related drivers. In response to relative sea-level rise, barrier islands tend to migrate landward via overwash processes which deposit sediment onto the backbarrier marsh, thus maintaining elevation above sea level. In this paper, we assess the importance of interior upland vegetation and sediment transport (from upland to marsh) on the movement of the marsh-upland boundary in a transgressive barrier system along the mid-Atlantic Coast.
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