Wave attenuation by natural coastal features is recognised as a soft engineering approach to shoreline protection from storm surges and destructive waves. The effectiveness of wave energy dissipation is determined, in part, by vegetation structure, extent, and distribution. Mangroves line ca. 15% of the world’s coastlines, primarily in tropical and subtropical regions but also extending into temperate climates, where mangroves...

The promotion of sedimentation by mangrove ecosystems with adequate sediment supply has been well documented. However, predicting the amount of accretion or erosion at a specific point, is difficult due to the inherent stochasticity of sediment movement and deposition. Forcings which have been thought to influence short-term sedimentation rates, such as the amount of suspended matter in the incoming water, the wave regime at t...