Total Water Level Mitigation Related to Fringing Reef and Upperbeach Vegetation Status at a Hurricane Exposed Coast

Increasing evidence suggests that coastal ecosystems provide significant protection against flooding. However, these are highly impacted by local human activities and climate change, which has resulted in reducing their extent can limit role flooding mitigation. Most studies dealing with the offered focus on a single ecosystem and, also seldom assess potential differences changes status of ecosystem. Therefore, based Xbeach Non-hydrostatic numerical modeling approach, we quantified inundation response to different combinations ecosystems’ health statuses. A combination fringing reef environment associated vegetated beach was chosen as this pattern is typical many low-lying areas Caribbean tropical general. Our results, (1) highlight capitalizing combined impacts multiple protection, (2) alert consequences further destruction ecosystems, (3) demonstrate predominant vegetation an increased sea-level rise (4) strategies deleterious effects present-day future degradation.