[MCN] Bye, bye: Small Pacific islands w/large trees

[Lance Olsen]

Excerpt from Discussion section:  "At least 
eleven islands across the northern Solomon 
Islands have either totally disappeared over 
recent decades or are currently experiencing 
severe erosion." "... the majority of uninhabited 
islands from the northern Solomon Islands were 
actively eroding across all size classes, 
including those over 25 ha in size (figure 7). 
Large Casuarina equisetifolia and Sonneratia alba 
trees (>40 cm dbh) were present on the shoreline 
of all of the actively eroding islands and dating 
of selected trees indicated shoreline stability 
over the past 150-250 yr until the recent erosion 
documented here (supplementary table 3).

Simon Albert et al. Interactions between 
sea-level rise and wave exposure on reef island 
dynamics in the Solomon Islands. Environmental 
Research Letters, Volume 11, Number 5
Published 6 May 2016 * © 2016 IOP Publishing Ltd

LETTER * OPEN ACCESS
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/11/5/054011#erlaa21eff6

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