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Geocarto International Volume 8, 1993 - Issue 4: Global Environmental Change
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Potential Effects of Sea‐Level Rise on Puget Sound Wetlands

Richard A. Park School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, 47405, U.S.A.; Abt Associates Inc., Hampden Square, Suite 600, 4800 Montgomery Lane, Bethesda, Maryland, 20814, U.S.A.
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Jae K. Lee School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, 47405, U.S.A.; Energy System Division/372, Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 South Cass Avenue, Argonne, Illinois, 60439, U.S.A.
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Douglas J. Canning Washington Department of Ecology, Olympia, Washington, 98504–7600, U.S.A.
Pages 99-110 | Published online: 17 Sep 2008
 
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Abstract

Remote sensing and simulation modeling of coastal areas around Puget Sound, Washington (U.S.A.) suggest that sea‐level rise due to global warming could lead to a large loss of tidal flats with a significant decrease in shellfish and habitat loss for diving ducks and geese. In contrast, if small dikes enclosing most of the former salt‐ and brackish marshes are allowed to deteriorate, saltmarshes will gradually reclaim these lowlands; if the dikes are strengthened, saltmarshes will disappear. Freshwater marshes and swamps could exhibit a slight increase in area as the base level changes and the water table rises adjacent to the shoreline.

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Present address: Abt Associates Inc., Hampden Square, Suite 600, 4800 Montgomery Lane, Bethesda Maryland 20814 U.S.A.

Present address: Energy System Division/372,Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 South Cass Avenue, Argonne, Illinois, 60439 U.S.A.

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