Flood Resilience, Viability, and Growth Response to Seawater Immersion of Bermudagrass (Cynodon dactylon (L.) Pers.)

A holistic approach to sustainable coastal zone management assigns the development of nature-based and low-cost strategies for protection during extreme meteorological events. This determines growing interest in plant species with high salt tolerance, study their flood resilience order determine capacity flooding erosion control. Bermudagrass (Cynodon dactylon (L.) Pers.), its vast rhizome system, has major characteristic features useful stabilisers sand dunes. aims define effects stress caused by storms on viability, survival ability, growth response bermudagrass simulations resilience. C. showed tolerance from seawater simulations. The Critical Decomposition Time is estimated at 144 h, which more than maximum-duration recorded Bulgarian Black Sea Coast. Untreated rhizomes less viability those treated Changes resistance, biomass, vegetative allocation were significant, water as an influencing factor. temperature duration submergence had no significant effect. As a median value between psammophytes Poaceae family Cyperaceae family, can be used model