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Projects - MorFeed - Morphodynamic feedback of estuarine margins to climate change
MorphFeed Project aims at contributing to answer the question: how will estuarine margins respond to possible climate change impacts? Considering that each morpho sedimentary unit has a different dynamical response to controlling environmental factors, the final goal is the development of a conceptual model for morphological response to different climate change and anthropogenic intervention scenarios. To pursue this objective a multidisciplinary and integrative approach, based on the following hypotheses, will be applied: 1) present day estuarine morphology and sediment distribution resulted of recent geologic evolution including climatic variations; 2) estuarine margins are dynamic systems where physical, chemical and biologic processes interact; 3) nowadays, human intervention are one of prime factors that affects these margins.

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