Marsh habitat change analysis for the Point Aux Chenes and Grand Bay Estuaries in Mississippi and Alabama from 1848 to 2022
Over time, as sea levels rise and land subsides, marsh transgression can occur. As shorelines erode and the marsh slowly transgresses landward into the upland, valuable coastal habitat simultaneously is lost and gained. If the shoreline erosion is faster than the rate of upland transgression, the result is a net loss …