Abstract
In this paper, eco-morphological model is proposed to simulate morphology at tidal environment with vegetation growth. Two numerical experiments such as vegetated scenario and unvegetated scenario were performed to clarify influence of vegetation on morphological evolution. This model was applied to a square tidal flat and calculations were conducted for 350 days. Computational results show that a complicated channel network is formed on tidal marsh and natural levees were appeared around the channel network in both cases. In addition, the vegetation propagated along the natural levees. In vegetated scenario, sediment deposition was enhanced by effect of vegetation on natural levee in comparsion with unvegetated scenario. Therefore, these results indicated that tidal channels are formed more clearly due to vegetation.
