Landscape analysis and tsunami damage in Aceh: comment on Iverson and Prasad (2007)

Baird, Andrew H., and Kerr, Alexander M. (2008) Landscape analysis and tsunami damage in Aceh: comment on Iverson and Prasad (2007). Landscape Ecology, 23 (1). pp. 3-5.

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DOI: 10.1007/s10980-007-9152-0

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Abstract

Data presented in Iverson and Prasad (2007), Using landscape analysis to assess and model tsunami damage in Aceh province, Sumatra. Landscape Ecology 22: 323–331 do not justify their conclusion that tree belts provided an effective defence against the Indian Ocean tsunami in Aceh, Indonesia. The mitigation hypothesis is not explicitly tested, and their modelling approach to predict areas susceptible to tsunami damage ignores many variables known to be important in the area studied.


Item ID:	18182
Item Type:	Article (Commentary)
ISSN:	1572-9761
Keywords:	coastal forests, Indian Ocean tsunami, tsunami mitigation, statistics
Date Deposited:	27 Sep 2011 05:28
FoR Codes:	06 BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES > 0602 Ecology > 060205 Marine and Estuarine Ecology (incl Marine Ichthyology) @ 100%
SEO Codes:	96 ENVIRONMENT > 9608 Flora, Fauna and Biodiversity > 960808 Marine Flora, Fauna and Biodiversity @ 100%
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