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<div><font face="Lucida Grande">Excerpt from Discussion
section: <font color="#262626"> "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</font><font
color="#005AA4"> 7</font><font color="#262626">). Large<i> Casuarina
equisetifolia</i> and<i> Sonneratia alba</i> 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).</font></font></div>
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<div><font face="Lucida Grande" color="#262626">Simon Albert et
al</font>.<font face="Lucida Grande" color="#262626"> Interactions
between sea-level rise and wave exposure on reef island dynamics in
the Solomon Islands</font>.<font face="Lucida Grande"><i>
Environmental Research Letters</i>, Volume 11, Number 5</font></div>
<div><font face="Lucida Grande" color="#262626">Published 6 May 2016 *
© 2016 IOP Publishing Ltd</font></div>
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