Assessing Coastal Ecological Vulnerability to Sea-Level Rise in the Manokin Watershed: A Ridge Regression Approach
Coastal wetlands of the Mid-Atlantic United States face increasing risks from sea-level rise (SLR), storm surge, and saltwater intrusion, yet spatially explicit, multivariate assessments of ecological vulnerability remain scarce. This study analyzes 400 synthetic habitat vulnerability units across four subareas and sev...