Potential landward migration of coastal wetlands in response to sea-level rise within estuarine drainage areas and coastal states of the conterminous United States
Description
We quantified the potential area available for landward migration of tidal saline wetlands and freshwater wetlands due to sea-level rise (SLR) at the estuary scale for 166 estuarine drainage areas and at the state scale for 22 coastal states and District of Columbia. We used 2016 Coastal Change Analysis Program (C-CAP) data in combination with the future wetland migration data under the 1.5 m global SLR scenario to evaluate the potential for wetland migration into all the individual C-CAP classes and into the following six land cover categories: (1) freshwater forest (wetland); (2) freshwater marsh (wetland); (3) terrestrial forest (upland); (4) terrestrial grassland (upland); (5) agricultural croplands (upland); and (6) pasture (upland). We also consolidated these categories to quantify potential migration into upland and wetland classes. Finally, we used the current C-CAP cover classes to quantify the current tidal saline wetland area and the current freshwater wetland area that is vulnerable to future tidal saline wetland migration.
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https://doi.org/10.5066/P96D1J6Z |
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The metadata original format |
https://data.usgs.gov/datacatalog/metadata/USGS.620e7306d34e6c7e83baa739.xml |
Tags
- environment
- new-york
- delaware
- atlantic-coast
- district-of-columbia
- new-jersey
- biota
- virginia
- mississippi
- united-states
- tidal-saline-wetland
- gulf-of-mexico-coast
- wetland-migration
- maine
- coastal
- south-carolina
- freshwater-wetland
- texas
- estuary
- pennsylvania
- connecticut
- maryland
- contiguous-united-states
- california
- conterminous-united-states
- pacific-coast
- north-carolina
- washington
- new-hampshire
- florida
- estuarine-drainage-area
- west-coast
- east-coast
- usgs-620e7306d34e6c7e83baa739
- louisiana
- alabama
- rhode-island
- georgia
- coastal-drainage-area
- coastal-wetland
- oregon
- massachusetts