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Formation and functions of arbuscular mycorrhizae in coastal wetland ecosystems: A review

open access: yesEcosystem Health and Sustainability, 2022
Context Coastal wetlands are ecotones interspaced by land and ocean and are among the most sensitive and vulnerable ecosystems worldwide. They are unique in hydrological, edaphic, atmospheric, and biological characteristics, and play important roles in ...
Xing-Qiang Wang   +3 more
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Climate variability impacts on coastal dune slack ecohydrology [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
The hydrological regime of freshwater systems plays a crucial role in shaping the dynamics of the different biological communities that inhabit them.
Burningham, Helene   +2 more
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Human activities accelerated the degradation of saline seepweed red beaches by amplifying top‐down and bottom‐up forces [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Salt marshes dominated by saline seepweed (Suaeda heteroptera) provide important ecosystem services such as sequestering carbon (blue carbon), maintaining healthy fisheries, and protecting shorelines. These salt marshes also constitute stunning red beach
Chen, Luzhen   +10 more
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Biodiversity in salt marshes: from the patrimonial value to the ecosystem functioning. The case study of the Mont Saint-Michel bay. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
Until 1979, European salt marshes were known only through the inventories of fauna and especially of flora. On such criteria, the salt marshes of the Mont-Saint-Michel bay (France) were regarded as most significant of the French coasts.
Bouchard, Virginie   +4 more
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The Ecology and Sociology of the Mission-Aransas Estuary : An Estuarine and Watershed Profile [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
watershed profileThe Mission-Aransas National Estuarine Research Reserve (NERR) is one of 28 national estuarine reserves created to promote the responsible use and management of the nation's estuaries through a program combining scientific research ...
Evans, Anne   +2 more
core   +1 more source

MODELLING COASTAL WETLAND STABILITY [PDF]

open access: yesCanadian Water Resources Journal, 1997
The size and number of coastal wetlands in the Great Lakes have been rapidly declining over the past century, but only in the past two decades have people begun to understand the complex environmental and biological benefits of these fresh water marshes.
Jari T. Silander, Kevin R. Hall
openaire   +1 more source

Lateral Marsh Edge Erosion as a Source of Sediments for Vertical Marsh Accretion [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
With sea level rise accelerating and sediment inputs to the coast declining worldwide, there is concern that tidal wetlands will drown. To better understand this concern, sources of sediment contributing to marsh elevation gain were computed for Plum ...
Barbier   +90 more
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Opportunities for improving recognition of coastal wetlands in global ecosystem assessment frameworks

open access: yesEcological Indicators, 2021
Vegetated coastal wetlands, including seagrass, saltmarsh and mangroves, are threatened globally, yet the need to avert these losses is poorly recognized in international policy, such as in the Convention on Biological Diversity and the United Nations ...
Christopher J. Brown   +15 more
doaj   +1 more source

Identify and Report Water Pollution: An Interpretive Guide to Surface Water Conditions of the New Hampshire Coastal Watershed, 2nd edition [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
This gude was designed to help people who work or recreate outdoors to interpret surface water conditions so that they would recognize a pollution incident and know how to report it.
New Hampshire Estuaries Project
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Transcriptome analysis reveals antioxidant defense mechanisms in the red swamp crayfish Procambarus clarkia after exposure to chromium

open access: yesEcotoxicology and Environmental Safety, 2021
Chromium (Cr) as a chromate anion has a strong redox capacity that seriously threatens the ecological environment and human health. Cr can contaminate water and impart toxicity to aquatic species. Procambarus clarkii is an important food source that once
Qiu-Ning Liu   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

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