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Stijn Temmerman

Stijn Temmerman

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Earth Science

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Overview

Stijn Temmerman is affiliated with the University of Antwerp in Belgium. Their research focuses on coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics and related environmental science and earth sciences.

The scientist's main fields of study include:

  • Environmental Science
  • Earth and Planetary Sciences

Within these areas, their subfields of study include:

  • Ecology
  • Earth-Surface Processes
  • Atmospheric Science
  • Oceanography
  • Plant Science

Temmerman's research addresses main topics such as:

  • Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics
  • Coastal and Marine Dynamics
  • Aeolian processes and effects
  • Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research
  • Plant responses to water stress
  • Geophysics and Gravity Measurements
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research

Notable recent papers include:

  • "Marshes and Mangroves as Nature-Based Coastal Storm Buffers" (2022, Annual Review of Marine Science)
  • "Historic storms and the hidden value of coastal wetlands for nature-based flood defence" (2020, Nature Sustainability)
  • "Constraints on the adjustment of tidal marshes to accelerating sea level rise" (2022, Science)
  • "Role of delta-front erosion in sustaining salt marshes under sea-level rise and fluvial sediment decline" (2020, Limnology and Oceanography)
  • "Land use and land cover changes in coastal and inland wetlands cause soil carbon and nitrogen loss" (2022, Global Ecology and Biogeography)

Frequent co-authors in Temmerman's publications include:

  • Olivier Gourgue
  • Jean-Philippe Belliard
  • Tjeerd J. Bouma
  • Sergio Fagherazzi
  • Jim van Belzen

The scientist commonly publishes in the following venues:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Limnology and Oceanography
  • Frontiers in Marine Science
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • SSRN Electronic Journal

Best Publications

  • Future response of global coastal wetlands to sea-level rise

    Mark Schuerch;Mark Schuerch;Thomas Spencer;Stijn Temmerman;Matthew L Kirwan

  • Limits on the adaptability of coastal marshes to rising sea level

    Matthew L. Kirwan;Matthew L. Kirwan;Glenn R. Guntenspergen;Andrea D'Alpaos;James T. Morris

  • Overestimation of marsh vulnerability to sea level rise

    Matthew L. Kirwan;Stijn Temmerman;Emily E. Skeehan;Glenn R. Guntenspergen;Glenn R. Guntenspergen

  • Numerical models of salt marsh evolution: Ecological, geomorphic, and climatic factors

    Sergio Fagherazzi;Matthew Lynn Kirwan;Matthew Lynn Kirwan;Simon Marius Mudd;Glenn R. Guntenspergen

  • Vegetation causes channel erosion in a tidal landscape

    S. Temmerman;T.J. Bouma;van de Johan Koppel;D. van der Wal

  • Spatial flow and sedimentation patterns within patches of epibenthic structures: Combining field, flume and modelling experiments

    T.J. Bouma;L.A. van Duren;S. Temmerman;T. Claverie

  • Impact of vegetation on flow routing and sedimentation patterns: Three-dimensional modeling for a tidal marsh

    S Temmerman;TJ Bouma;Gerard Govers;ZB Wang

  • Spatial and temporal factors controlling short‐term sedimentation in a salt and freshwater tidal marsh, Scheldt estuary, Belgium, SW Netherlands

    Stijn Temmerman;Gerard Govers;S Wartel;P Meire

  • Modelling estuarine variations in tidal marsh sedimentation: response to changing sea level and suspended sediment concentrations

    S Temmerman;Gerard Govers;S Wartel;P Meire

  • Dynamic interactions between coastal storms and salt marshes: A review

    Nicoletta Leonardi;Iacopo Carnacina;Carmine Donatelli;Neil Kamal Ganju

  • Modelling long-term tidal marsh growth under changing tidal conditions and suspended sediment concentrations, Scheldt estuary, Belgium

    Stijn Temmerman;Gerard Govers;P Meire;S Wartel

  • Coastal marsh response to historical and future sea-level acceleration

    Matthew Kirwan;Stijn Temmerman

  • Density-dependent linkage of scale-dependent feedbacks: a flume study on the intertidal macrophyte Spartina anglica

    T. J. Bouma;M. Friedrichs;B. K. Van Wesenbeeck;S. Temmerman

  • Flow hydrodynamics on a mudflat and in salt marsh vegetation: identifying general relationships for habitat characterisations

    T.J. Bouma;M.B. de Vries;E. Low;L. Kusters

  • Flow interaction with dynamic vegetation patches: Implications for biogeomorphic evolution of a tidal landscape

    W. Vandenbruwaene;S. Temmerman;T. J. Bouma;P. C. Klaassen

  • Short-term mudflat dynamics drive long-term cyclic salt marsh dynamics

    T. J. Bouma;J. van Belzen;T. Balke;J.H. van Dalen

  • Organism traits determine the strength of scale-dependent bio-geomorphic feedbacks: A flume study on three intertidal plant species

    Tjeerd Bouma;S. Temmerman;L.A. van Duren;E. Martini

  • Self-organization of a biogeomorphic landscape controlled by plant life-history traits

    Christian Schwarz;Christian Schwarz;Olivier Gourgue;Jim van Belzen;Jim van Belzen;Zhenchang Zhu

  • Building land with a rising sea

    Stijn Temmerman;Matthew L. Kirwan

  • Flow paths of water and sediment in a tidal marsh: relations with marsh developmental stage and tidal inundation height

    S Temmerman;TJ Bouma;Gerard Govers;Dirk Lauwaet

  • Measuring sedimentation in tidal marshes : a review on methods and their applicability in biogeomorphological studies

    S. Nolte;Elske Koppenaal;Peter Esselink;K. S. Dijkema

  • Vegetation causes channel erosion in a tidal landscape

    S. Temmerman;T.J. Bouma;J. van de Koppel;D. van der Wal

Frequent Co-Authors

Patrick Meire
Patrick Meire University of Antwerp
Tjeerd J. Bouma
Tjeerd J. Bouma Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research
Gerard Govers
Gerard Govers KU Leuven
Matthew L. Kirwan
Matthew L. Kirwan Virginia Institute of Marine Science
Peter M. J. Herman
Peter M. J. Herman Delft University of Technology
Peter Troch
Peter Troch University of Arizona
Andrea D'Alpaos
Andrea D'Alpaos University of Padua
Johan van de Koppel
Johan van de Koppel Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research
Glenn R. Guntenspergen
Glenn R. Guntenspergen United States Fish and Wildlife Service
Stefano Lanzoni
Stefano Lanzoni University of Padua

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