This land is your land, this could be marsh land: Property parcel characteristics of marsh migration corridors in Rhode Island, USA.

ABSTRACT: Salt marshes, critical habitats offering many ecosystem services, are threatened by development, accelerated sea level rise (SLR) and other anthropogenic stressors that are projected to worsen. As seas rise, some salt marshes can migrate inland if there is adjacent, permeable, undeveloped land available. Facilitating marsh migration is necessary for coastal resilience efforts, but extensive coastal development can make finding suitable migration corridors challenging. This work seeks to characterize changes in land use, ownership, and economic value at the property parcel level within current versus future marsh areas for the state of Rhode Island, USA. We find that most parcels currently containing salt marsh are publicly owned, whereas most adjacent parcels projected to contain new salt

SUBMITTER: Burman E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11492132 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature