Coastal wetlands provide human populations with a multitude of ecosystem services, but they are increasingly threatened by sea-level rise and other simultaneous

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is the leading international body for assessing the science related to climate change. It provides policyma

Restoration and construction of tidal marshes has been encouraged to recover ecosystem structure and function in response to wetland loss. While natural and res

Tide gauges show that global sea level has risen about 7 inches during the 20th century, and recent satellite data show that the rate of sea-level rise is accel

Long-term persistence of coastal wetlands depends on maintenance of surface elevations relative to sea-level rise also in the presence of other natural and anth