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Tom Spencer
Researcher at University of Cambridge
Publications - 93
Citations - 4896
Tom Spencer is an academic researcher from University of Cambridge. The author has contributed to research in topics: Salt marsh & Environmental change. The author has an hindex of 32, co-authored 93 publications receiving 4021 citations. Previous affiliations of Tom Spencer include University of British Columbia & Stockholm Environment Institute.
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Wave attenuation over coastal salt marshes under storm surge conditions
Iris Möller,Matthias Kudella,Franziska Rupprecht,Tom Spencer,Maike Paul,Bregje K. van Wesenbeeck,Guido Wolters,Kai Jensen,Tjeerd J. Bouma,Martin Miranda-Lange,Stefan Schimmels +10 more
TL;DR: In this paper, wave flume experiments show that marsh vegetation causes substantial wave dissipation and prevents erosion of the underlying surface, even during extreme storm surge conditions, and salt marshes protect coastlines against waves.
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Future response of global coastal wetlands to sea-level rise
Mark Schuerch,Mark Schuerch,Tom Spencer,Stijn Temmerman,Matthew L. Kirwan,Claudia Wolff,Daniel Lincke,Chris McOwen,Mark D. Pickering,Ruth Reef,Athanasios T. Vafeidis,Jochen Hinkel,Robert J. Nicholls,Sally Brown +13 more
TL;DR: A global modelling approach shows that in response to rises in global sea level, gains of up to 60% in coastal wetland areas are possible, if appropriate coastal management solutions are developed to help support wetland resilience.
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Coastal Wetland Vulnerability to Relative Sea-Level Rise: Wetland Elevation Trends and Process Controls
TL;DR: The distribution of tidal saline wetlands (e.g., salt marshes and mangroves) is increasingly impacted by global environmental change, including human alteration of the world's coasts and sea-level rise.
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A New Global Coastal Database for Impact and Vulnerability Analysis to Sea-Level Rise
Athanasios T. Vafeidis,Robert J. Nicholls,Loraine McFadden,Richard S.J. Tol,Jochen Hinkel,Tom Spencer,Poul S. Grashoff,Gerben Boot,Richard J. T. Klein +8 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a new global coastal database has been developed within the context of the DINAS-COAST project, which is based on a data model in which all information is referenced to more than 12,000 linear coastal segments of variable length.
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Wave dissipation over macro-tidal saltmarshes: Effects of marsh edge typology and vegetation change
Iris Möller,Tom Spencer +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a 10-month-long wave/tide dataset from two sites on the Dengie marshes, eastern England, was used to investigate the effect of vegetation cover on wave attenuation.