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Coastal populations and wetlands have been intertwined for centuries, whereby humans both influence and depend on the extensive ecosystem services that wetlands provide. Recent work has identified fascinating feedbacks between plant growth and geomorphology that allow wetlands to actively resist the deleterious effects of sea-level rise. Humans alter the strength of these feedbacks. Whether wetlands continue to survive sea-level rise depends largely on how human impacts interact with rapid sea-level rise. [Source: Nature]
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